From: Platte County Prosecuting Attorney "Eric Zahnd"

Date: June 03, 2010

Subject: Former police officer sentenced to 4 years in prison

A former Weston police officer has been sentenced to four years in prison
for stealing drugs from the police department’s evidence room. Kyle
Zumbrunn, 27, received the sentence in Platte County Circuit Court on
June 3 after pleading guilty to stealing a controlled substance. Zumbrunn
previously pled guilty to selling the drugs to an undercover police officer in
Kansas.

Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd said,

“When a police officer abuses the power of the
badge by stealing drugs from the evidence room
so he can sell them on the street, prison is the
only appropriate sentence.”

Circuit Court Judge Lee Hull handed down the

sentence, noting during the sentencing that
Zumbrunn had violated the “trust that people
place in those who wear the uniform” as a
police officer.

The stealing investigation against Zumbrunn

began on September 22, 2009, when the Kansas
Bureau of Investigations contacted the Weston
Police Department, reporting that Zumbrunn
had been for selling pills. An inventory of the
evidence room at the Weston Police
Department revealed 28 Morphine pills, 45 Kyle Zumbrunn
Oxycodone pills, and 37 Morphine Sulfate pills
were missing.

Zumbrunn admitted stealing the pills while working on duty as a police

officer for the City of Weston. Zumbrunn said he took the pills to sell for
extra money.

Prior to charges being filed, the Platte County Sheriff’s Department

conducted an extensive investigation, which included a review of evidence
handling procedures by the Weston Police Department.

Zahnd said, “The Mayor, city attorney, and Weston police department all
cooperated fully in this investigation. It’s good to have this criminal case
resolved, so everyone can focus fully on making Weston’s evidence
handling procedures the best they can be.”

Zumbrunn previously pled guilty in Atchison County, Kansas to selling a

controlled substance. He was sentenced to 16 months in the Kansas
Department of Corrections on that charge. His four-year sentence will run
concurrently with the Kansas sentence.

Zumbrunn faced a maximum of seven years in prison. Zahnd

recommended that Zumbrunn be sentenced to six years in prison, while
Zumbrunn’s lawyer argued for a three-year term.

The case was investigated by the Platte County Sheriff’s Department and
the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. It was personally prosecuted by Zahnd
and First Assistant Prosecutor Mark Gibson.

Eric G. Zahnd
Platte County Prosecuting Attorney
415 Third Street
Suite 60
Platte City, Missouri 64079
(816) 858-3476
(816) 858-3472 (fax)