A Shawnee man facing more than 30 felony charges of sex-related crimes with minors has been bound over to stand trial and his arraignment has been set.
The 34 felony charges were formally filed in Pottawatomie County District Court on Dec. 15, 2022 against Danny Ray Weeks, Jr., 52.
At the conclusion of his preliminary hearing before Special Judge David Cawthon March 3, Weeks was bound over. His arraignment is scheduled for 9 a.m. April 19.
Judge Cawthon ordered that Weeks’ $550,000 bond remain. He is in the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center in Shawnee.
A $550,000 bench warrant was originally issued for his arrest the day the charges were filed. Court records state, too, that once arrested that would be 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.
His pre-preliminary hearing was held on Feb. 7.
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.