KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Two Kansas City women are suing a security officer and his former employer, alleging he used his uniform and badge to sexually assault them.
Monsees & Mayer says the lawsuits were filed on Wednesday, Aug. 26, in Jackson County Circuit Court.
The suits come two months after the officer, Brandon S. Wells, 42, pleaded guilty to felony kidnapping, sodomy and other charges connected to the assaults – a plea he is now fighting to withdraw.
Attorneys David M. Mayer, Robert A. Thrasher and Phillip R. Martens of Monsees & Mayer say they filed the suits on behalf of two women, identified only as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2.
The lawyers note that the women are proceeding under pseudonyms due to the sensitive nature of the cases.
What the lawsuits allege
Both women say they were stopped and detained by Wells while he was working as a security officer for U.S. Protective Service, a privately owned security company operating in the Kansas City metro.
- Jane Doe 1 alleges Wells stopped her near 8th St. and Benton Blvd. on Aug. 1, 2023, after she took a recycling bin to carry her belongings. According to the suit, Wells handcuffed her, lifted her shirt and pulled out the waistband of her pants to look inside, then forced her to perform sexual acts on him behind a nearby building before letting her go.
- Jane Doe 2 alleges Wells and another security officer detained her and a friend near 10th and Benton on July 9, 2023, telling her she was going to jail. According to the petition, Wells eventually drove her alone to a Waffle House parking lot, where he raped her.
Both lawsuits claim Wells used his position – including his uniform, marked patrol vehicle and authority over the women – to facilitate the assaults.
The suits name Wells and multiple entities operating under the U.S. Protective Service name – United States Protective Service Inc., U.S. Protective Service, Inc. and United States Protective Services LLC – as defendants.
Jane Doe 2’s suit also names Waffle House, Inc., which the complaint says owned or operated the property where the assault occurred and had contracted with U.S. Protective Service for Security.
Jane Doe 1’s suit similarly names Tyson L. Daniel, identified as the owner or operator of the property where she was first detained.
The lawsuits allege U.S. Protective Service and its related entities failed to properly hire, retain and supervise Wells, giving him substantial authority and control over members of the public despite knowing – or having reason to know – that he was unfit or unsafe to work as a security officer.
Both suits seek compensatory damages and demand a jury trial.
The criminal case
Wells was criminally charged in 2023 in connection with the assaults. He pleaded guilty on June 23, 2026, to 6 counts:
- Two counts of kidnapping
- Sodomy or attempted sodomy, 1st degree
- Assault, 4th degree
- Rape or attempted rape, 1st degree
- Tampering with electronic monitoring equipment
Three days after entering his plea, court records show that Wells filed a motion asking the court to let him withdraw it, arguing he is innocent and that his former attorneys coerced him into pleading guilty.
According to the motion, Wells claims his attorneys used aggressive, threatening and intimidating conduct and warned him he would face consecutive life sentences if he went to trial.
The motion also claims one of his attorneys threatened to abandon the case if Wells did not accept the plea deal, a threat allegedly relayed to Wells’ wife by phone days before he entered his plea.
Wells is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 1 p.m., when a judge is expected to consider his request to withdraw the plea.
Sentencing, if the plea stands, is currently set for Sept. 11. Court appearances for the civil lawsuits have not yet been set.
KCTV5 has reached out to U.S. Protective Service and Wells’ attorney for comment and will update this story with any response.
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