BROWN COUNTY (KSNT) - An official with a northeast Kansas Native American tribe is under arrest Thursday afternoon.
Sheriff John Merchant with the Brown County Sheriff's Office said in a press release that a search warrant was used around 3 p.m. on April 25 for a home in the 1100 block of Holden Eagle Road on the Kickapoo Reservation. As a result, Chairman of the Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas Lester Randall, was arrested on a charge of aggravated domestic battery.
Randall is listed as the chairman of the tribe with the U.S. Department of the Interior's Indian Affairs division.
The Kansas Highway Patrol assisted with the execution of the search warrant. The investigation into this is ongoing.
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