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Child porn charges added for accused Atchison rapist

By Brian Hagen

04/07/2025

Justin Metz/Atchison Police

(KAIR)--A Leavenworth man, accused of raping a woman in the restroom of the Atchison Walmart store last month, now faces charges connected to online child pornography.

Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson, in a release, says an ongoing investigation focused on 42-year-old Justin Metz, following his March arrest, has led to a charge of aggravated internet trading in child pornography.

Metz was charged last Thursday while already in custody at the Atchison County Jail, originally held on a $500,000 bond. Now, Wilson says, Metz's bond for the new charge was set at $2 million.

Metz, last month in Atchison County District Court, was formally charged with rape, kidnapping, aggravated sexual battery, and theft, in connection with the alleged restroom attack on a 32-year-old woman. Police say on the afternoon of Sunday, March 9, the date of the alleged attack, Metz posed as a store asset protection officer to convince his victim to come to the back of the store with him.

Metz was arrested the following Sunday, March 16, when he returned to the store and was spotted by staff, who then alerted police who took him into custody.

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