Former Bonner Springs, Kansas detective Kyle Rector charged with using Flock cameras, police databases to stalk estranged wife

On March 18, 2026, Wyandotte County District Attorney Mark Dupree filed 18 criminal charges against Kyle Rector, 39, a former Bonner Springs, Kansas police detective, after a Kansas Bureau of Investigation inquiry found he had used department surveillance and database tools to track his estranged wife and two men he suspected she was involved with. The KBI opened its investigation on Jan. 28, 2026, after a Bonner Springs Police Department captain reported that an internal review had found Rector "had used law enforcement technology and equipment to stalk his wife." Bonner Springs police had already terminated Rector's employment on Jan. 26, two days before the captain contacted the KBI.

According to the unsealed probable-cause affidavit, Rector used Flock Safety automated license-plate-reader cameras, the department's LexisNexis/Accurint "Virtual Crime Center" database, and Kansas's KCJIS/REJIS law-enforcement records systems -- none tied to any case he was assigned -- to locate his wife and the two men, running more than 20 Accurint searches in late December 2025 alone. Rector's wife obtained a protection order that was granted and served on Jan. 19, 2026; investigators found he ran at least three more database searches after being served, and neighbors reported him still driving past her home as late as March 7. Court records also describe Rector using his department-issued Ford Explorer to track and surveil his wife and the two men while both on and off duty, including confronting his wife and one of the men at an Olathe gym on Nov. 15, 2025, then following their car through nearby parking lots in his police vehicle.

The charges filed March 18 include one count of stalking, breach-of-privacy and unlawful- computer-access counts, and five counts of official misconduct tied to the surveillance, alongside five separate counts of sexual exploitation of a child after investigators said they found child sexual abuse material on devices seized from Rector's patrol vehicle during the search. Rector was booked into the Wyandotte County Detention Center on $150,000 bond, which he has since posted. He made his first court appearance on March 31, 2026, with a further hearing set for May 19, 2026; no outcome of that hearing had been publicly reported as of this recording.