The 6 people who can recall Roger Golubski harassing, exploiting Meka Hobbs for years | Opinion
To varying degrees, a number of people in Meka Hobbs’ life knew way back in 2006 that she was seeing Kansas City, Kansas Police Department Captain Roger Golubski, and that she did not want to be.
Delresha Robinson, the sister
“He used to come and bother her,” her younger sister, Delresha Robinson, told me. Delresha knew the full story from the beginning, she said, since Meka had told her all along that she wanted nothing to do with Golubski, sexually or otherwise, but felt she had no choice but to do as he said. “I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ It was kind of scary for her. I didn’t think cops would do that, but he did. He turned the tables.”
Anita Hobbs, the godmother
Meka Hobbs’ godmother, Anita Holsted, also knew plenty, and says that what she knew worried her to no end. “We lived together” then, her godmother says. “I did know there were other girls he was messing with -- I remember stuff about him doing wrong towards women -- and I remember her talking about having to go to his house. … Most of the time, he picked her up around the corner, but he was always in the picture. Her kids were young, and she tried to keep people she cared about away from him.”
Dedra Everson, the mother
Meka’s mother, Dedra Everson, asked her to call her every single time she got in Golubski’s car. “That was our #1 rule,” her mother said: Meka had to call her mom and report her whereabouts whenever she was with him, so that if anything happened to her, her loved ones would at least know where to start to look.“Meka don’t follow rules, but she followed that one.”
Edna Reed, the neighbor
Edna Reed, who at one point lived in the KCK duplex adjacent to Meka’s, remembers seeing Golubski knock on her door at all hours. Reed tried her best to have no interaction with Golubski at all, because “I knew he was a cop.” Meka was not “the only person I knew he would go visit” for sex. But no, she told me, that didn’t particularly worry her, because “I was getting high at that time, and to be honest with you, that’s all I was worried about. He did come by quite often, and I know he did harass her.”
Jeff Martin, the son
Even Meka’s youngest son, Jeff Martin, who is 21 now, remembers getting in and out of the backseat of Golubski’s detective car: “I remember bits and pieces. As I got older, I started figuring out things,” at which point “my whole body got goosebumps.”
Unnamed police reserve officer
A former KCK police reserve officer who had befriended Jeff, and used to take him fishing, told me on condition of anonymity, because he doesn’t want to be shunned by his cop friends, that he knew from Meka Hobbs that somebody from the KCKPD was bothering her. “She mentioned an officer, but she didn’t say who. She said he was coming by and harassing her.” Over the years, this former reserve officer said, he heard from plenty of others in KCK that Golubski was extorting or exploiting someone close to them.
This story was originally published October 22, 2023 at 5:04 AM.
