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Man arrested at Travis Kelce’s home sentenced, says he was serving a subpoena

A man accused of trespassing at the Leawood home of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce in September entered a diversion program Tuesday.

Justin Lee Fisher, who was charged with criminal trespassing in Leawood Municipal Court after Leawood police arrested him around 2:15 a.m. Sept. 15, later wrote in a court document that he had been attempting to serve a subpoena. Fisher was accused of jumping a fence onto private property, according to a police complaint.

According to the complaint, the arrest occurred at the address of Kelce’s home a few hours after the Chiefs played the Philadelphia Eagles on Sept. 14.

A diversion agreement allows someone accused of a crime — usually one that is relatively minor — to avoid a conviction by meeting certain requirements agreed to by prosecutors.

According to court records provided to The Star by the court, Fisher entered into a diversion agreement for one year and received a sentence of probation on Tuesday. Prosecutors agreed to dismiss the trespass charge if Fisher met the terms of his diversion agreement for one year, according to court documents. Fisher also agreed to pay a $1,000 diversion fee.

Terms of his agreement include him not violating any laws and having no contact with any complaining or reporting parties or the residence of the initial complaint.

In an email to The Star, Christopher Scott, Fisher’s attorney, said Fisher’s company had been hired by an attorney to serve Taylor Swift as part of a legal dispute between actors Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.

“It was an unfortunate incident where Justin was acting on behalf of his employer,” Scott said, noting his client intended no harm, had no bad intentions and was glad to get the incident behind him.

Asked why Fisher was at the property around 2 a.m., Scott said, “He was doing his job, and it just extended into the early hours. There was nothing nefarious about it at all. He was literally just trying to do his job.”

In a Nov. 4 diversion application, Fisher wrote that he was arrested while he was doing his job as a process server. He said he could not have a conviction on his record, and if he did, he would lose his private investigator license.

“I was attempting to serve a subpoena (redacted),” Fisher wrote in the application. “I went to the address through the gate as it opened and attempted to speak to the security guards in an attempt to serve the paperwork. I was never told to leave or even spoken to. Police arrived and arrested me.”

“It is very important to me to successfully complete the program in order to put this behind me and keep my PI license as it is my livelihood and how I support my family,” he wrote.

This story was originally published December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM.

Nathan Pilling
The Kansas City Star
Nathan Pilling is a breaking news reporter for The Kansas City Star. He previously worked in newsrooms in Washington state and Ohio and grew up in eastern Iowa.
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