MANHATTAN—Law enforcement authorities are investigating a series of alleged rapes that have occurred in Ogden, Kansas from 2004-2012 and have made an arrest.
On November 11, 2020, officers filed a report for several past rape and aggravated criminal sodomy offenses in Ogden, listing a now 21-year-old female as the victim and a now 46-year-old male known to her as the suspect, according to Riley County Police Department spokesperson Aaron Wintermote.
On Friday afternoon, police arrested 46-year-old Michael James Tschantz at the Naples Texas Police Department on a Riley County District Court warrant for five counts of rape of a child under 14 years of age.
Tschantz is currently confined in the Morris County, Texas Jail on a $600,000 bond pending extradition to the Riley County Jail.
This is an active and ongoing investigation; we are asking anyone who has further information about Tschantz to please contact RCPD Detective Brian Johnson at (785) 473-2323 or [email protected], or your local police department.