Lenexa Man Charged with Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Minor

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas man was charged in federal court with attempted sex trafficking of a minor.

Curtis Ray Gibson, 47, of Lenexa, Kan., was charged in a criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Mo. on Tuesday, June 9, 2026. Gibson had his initial appearance this afternoon.

The federal complaint charges Gibson with one count of Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Minor. According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Gibson, over the course of two days, engaged in online communications with an undercover law enforcement officer who was posing online as a 15-year-old minor. During his communications with the person he believed to be a minor, Gibson arranged to meet the purported minor to engage in sexual conduct in exchange for $400.00, and also asked the purported minor to send him pornographic images. Gibson was later arrested on June 9, 2026, after he arrived at a hotel where he had arranged to meet the minor to engage in sexual conduct.

The charges contained in this complaint are simply accusations, and not evidence of guilt. Evidence supporting the charges must be presented to a federal trial jury, whose duty is to determine guilt or innocence.

This case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Luna. It was investigated by Homeland Security Investigations, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Clay County Sheriff's Office, and the North Kansas City Missouri Police Department.

Project Safe Childhood

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc . For more information about Internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."