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Convicted pimp found unregistered in Holton

By Brian Hagen

09/30/2025

Darnell James Winston/Credit: Jackson Co Sheriff

(KAIR)--A former Leavenworth man, and current resident of Holton, is in Jackson County custody, arrested for violations committed while a registered sex offender.

According to online U.S. Attorneys' records, Darnell James Winston was sentenced, at the age of 23, to federal prison in 2016 for sex trafficking of a child.

Jackson County Sheriff Tim Morse, in a release, says Winston was arrested last week, September 25, at a Holton business, taken into custody on 6 counts of violating the offender registration act.

According to Morse, the now 32-year-old Winston is on federal probation and allegedly failed to register as a sex offender in Jackson County.

Following his arrest, Winston was booked into the Jackson County Jail.

According to the online records, Winston, at the time residing in Leavenworth, was arrested in August, 2015, after meeting an undercover officer at an Arkansas motel, believing the officer to be a 16-year-old girl being recruited for prostitution. Winston was accompanied by a 17-year-old girl, working for him as a prostitute, at the time of his arrest.

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