A bench warrant of more than a half-million dollars has been issued for the arrest of a Shawnee man facing over 30 charges of sex-related crimes with minors.
A total of 34 felony charges were formally filed in Pottawatomie County District Court on Dec. 15 against Danny Ray Weeks, Jr., 52.
The $550,000 bench warrant was issued for his arrest the day the charges were filed. Court records state, too, that once arrested that is the amount of his bond. It further states he is to have no contact with any person under the age of 18 and no contact with the alleged victims as a condition of the bond.
The 34 charges include 23 alleging lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16; seven more alleging forcible oral sodomy; one for alleged lewd or indecent proposals to a child; two alleging first degree rape by instrumentation; and one for allegedly engaging in a pattern of criminal offenses.
The alleged crimes reportedly occurred with five different minors.
Prosecutors allege the crimes occurred during several different time periods including from Oct. 12, 2019 to Oct. 11, 2021; Oct. 12, 2019 to Sep. 3, 2022; Aug. 4, 2020 to Aug. 22, 2022; Sep. 18, 2020 to Sep. 17, 2021; Aug. 4, 2021 to Aug. 3, 2022; and Sep. 4, 2021 to Sep. 3, 2022.
Prosecutors also allege that some of the crimes occurred in Lincoln and/or Pottawatomie County, others just in Pottawatomie County and one in Pottawatomie and Lincoln counties.
According to the information filed, officers, detectives and deputies with the Shawnee Police Department and Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office were involved in this investigation along with the One Safe Place Family Justice Center.
Weeks originally was charged in Lincoln County District Court on Aug. 25 with five felony charges of lewd or indecent acts to a child, then on Sep. 7 four more felony charges were filed against him.
His preliminary hearings on all nine charges had been scheduled for Dec. 16. But Lincoln County District Court records show the state filed a motion to dismiss all nine charges on that date, the day after the 34 were filed in Pottawatomie County District Court against him.