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Rodrigo Sanchez-Flores, the JCCC Police Department officer charged with an alleged assault, no longer works for JCCC. 

The Messenger reached out to Chris Gray, Vice President, Strategic Communications & Marketing, via email to see if the college still employed Sanchez-Flores.  

Gray responded to the Messenger via email, writing, “Rodrigo Sanchez-Flores is not an employee of Johnson County Community College (JCCC).” 

Prosecutors charged Sanchez-Flores, 27, of De Soto, Kansas, with one count of first-degree rape and one count of first-degree sodomy in Jackson County Circuit Court.   

According to court documents, on September 29, 2024, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department responded to a disturbance in Jackson County, Missouri. The investigation later revealed that the victim was raped and sodomized by the suspect, Sanchez-Flores.   

According to those same documents, the victim stated that she did not remember leaving the club with Sanchez-Flores, but video surveillance showed she was too intoxicated to consent.   

In a news release Thursday, Sept. 24, a Sexual Assault Forensic Exam (SAFE) identified the presence of male DNA; the analysis found a very strong connection indicating that the defendant was a contributor of the DNA.