Aaron Webb
Introduction
Aaron Webb is a 33-year-old Bel Aire, Kansas, man who served as police chief of Greensburg, in southwest Kansas, until his resignation in November 2023 — and was arrested at his home on the evening of November 3, 2026, on charges that he sexually abused a child while he led the department. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said agents and Bel Aire police took Webb into custody at around 6:40 p.m. Tuesday; he was transported to the Ford County Jail and booked on a warrant. The charges allege the abuse occurred between September 2022 and May 2023, while Webb was chief .
Background Information
Webb led the Greensburg Police Department until he stepped down as chief in November 2023. The Kiowa County Sheriff’s Office requested KBI assistance in the case on January 27, 2025 — over a year after his resignation — when the allegations surfaced, and the investigation ran for another twenty-one months before the warrant issued. “Webb was no longer police chief at that time as he resigned in November 2023,” the KBI noted in announcing the arrest. Greensburg is the small Kansas town famous for rebuilding green after the 2007 tornado that destroyed it; its police chief is one of the most visible public offices in the county .
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Charged; presumption of innocence. Webb faces charges that have not been tested in court; he is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
According to the KBI, agents and Bel Aire police arrested Webb at his home in Bel Aire — a Wichita suburb — at around 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday, November 3, 2026. He was transported to the Ford County Jail and booked on a warrant charging two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and two counts of battery in Kiowa County District Court. The charges allege he sexually abused a child between September 2022 and May 2023, while he was chief. Court documents say the victim is a teenager .
The path from allegation to arrest stretched across nearly four years: the conduct window closed in May 2023; Webb resigned that November; the sheriff’s office called in the KBI in January 2025; and the arrest warrant executed in November 2026. The Kansas Attorney General’s Office is expected to prosecute the case .
Public Reaction and Consequences
The arrest ended three years of quiet for Webb, who had left office before the allegations surfaced and had not been publicly named in connection with the investigation until agents appeared at his Bel Aire home. The KBI’s announcement asked anyone with information to call the agency at 800-572-7463 or submit tips online — a standing invitation that signals investigators believe the teenage victim may not be the only person with relevant knowledge. Webb was booked into the Ford County Jail on a $75,000 bond .
Current Status
As of the announcement, Webb had been charged in Kiowa County District Court with two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and two counts of battery, booked into the Ford County Jail on a $75,000 bond, and was facing prosecution expected to be handled by the Kansas Attorney General’s Office. The investigation is ongoing. No arraignment date, plea, or defense attorney was identified in the fetched coverage, and the case’s court records are at their earliest stage .
Impact on Their Career/Life
Webb’s law-enforcement career ended in 2023 with an unremarkable resignation from a small-town chief’s job; the 2026 arrest reframes that exit as the moment he walked away from the department he is now accused of betraying from inside. A former chief charged with aggravated indecent liberties with a child is the kind of case that follows a county for years — and the KBI’s public tip line, the attorney general’s takeover of prosecution, and the four-year investigative arc all point to a case built to survive trial rather than settle quickly. For Greensburg, the town that rebuilt itself after catastrophe, the news that its rebuilt police department was led during the alleged abuse period by a man now charged with abusing a teenager lands as a second betrayal of public trust .