Police Quit Standoff With Child Molester Gregory Andrews After Neighbors Protest

Gregory Andrews: Convicted child molester who avoided arrest after neighbors protested.

Police Quit Standoff With Child Molester Gregory Andrews After Neighbors Protest

Kansas City, Kansas – The U.S. Marshals arrived at Gregory Andrews’ home to arrest him for failing to register as a sex offender after he was convicted of molesting a child. Andrews’ neighbors then came to the defense of the child molester.

The standoff started Tuesday morning when Gregory Andrews refused to exit his house and threatened officers. Andrews and his wife yelled over a megaphone that they were sovereign citizens and would not be taken alive.

“I will not go quietly. You might as well put a bullet in me now,” Andrews shouted at officers. “I will die a martyr’s death!”

The police blocked off the roadway in the area, and a large crowd of neighbors gathered. People in the crowd got upset with officers for trying to arrest somebody who didn’t do anything but molest a child. They reportedly chanted “Don’t shoot, don’t shoot!”

Kansas City officers and SWAT team were called in to assist. After six hours of trying to get Andrews to surrender, he only became more agitated and made it clear that there would be a shooting if officers came for him.

The officers on scene were faced with either going after Andrews, and likely shooting him and his wife if they tried to kill officers, or leaving. The incident commander decided that Andrews’ threat to the public was not severe enough to get into a deadly shootout over. Officers then withdrew from the scene.

Gregory Andrews the triumphantly exited his house and spoke with the gathered media, “I was an innocent man, falsely accused, convicted and taken from my family,” Andrews told FOX 4. “They were here because they were fake warrants that Wyandotte County Prosecutor Jerome Gorman put out on me.”

Sovereign citizens generally do not recognize the authority of the state or court, and so any warrant or court order would be considered “fake” or “illegal” by them.

The criminal history for Gregory Andrews shows that after he was convicted of aggravated indecent liberties with a child, he began to stalk the judge in the case and was sentenced for that too. Once Andrews was released from prison, he refused to follow the conditions of his parole or to register as a sex offender.

Authorities picked up Andrews’ children from school and they are now under the care of the state. There is still an outstanding warrant for his arrest.