{"id":247795,"date":"2026-05-29T15:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247795\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T15:02:41","slug":"man-held-on-100000-bond-in-connection-with-sex-crimes-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/247795\/","title":{"rendered":"Man held on $100,000 bond in connection with sex crimes in Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was being held on a $100,000 bond in the Riley County Jail after he was arrested in connection with child sex crimes Thursday in Manhattan, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The arrested man was identified as Kirk Lee Hartgenbush, 64, of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County Police officials said Hartgenbush was arrested at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at a mobile home park in the 700 block of Allen Road, on the northeast side of Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Kirk Lee Hartgenbush, 64, of Manhattan, was being held on a $100,000 bond in the Riley County...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780066961_975_USU6LMJSURIUJHWNFMYQOE27AE.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"550\" \/>Kirk Lee Hartgenbush, 64, of Manhattan, was being held on a $100,000 bond in the Riley County Jail following his Thursday in connection with child sex crimes, officials said.(WIBW)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Hartgenbush was subsequently booked into the Riley County Jail, where he was being held Friday in connection with 24 counts of sexual exploitation of a child &#8212; possession of media of a child under the age of 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Additional details weren\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Check <a href=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/wibw.com\" target=\"_blank\">wibw.com<\/a> later for more information as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; A man was being held on a $100,000 bond in the Riley County Jail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[96812,96810,32503,101,96809,75,84,83,1208,96814,9,24,63,33744,104,3106,96811,96813],"class_list":["post-247795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-24-counts","tag-96810","tag-700-block-of-allen-road","tag-arrest","tag-kirk-lee-hartgenbush","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-media","tag-mobile-home-park","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-of-manhattan","tag-police","tag-riley-county-jail","tag-sexual-exploi9tation-of-a-child","tag-under-the-age-of-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}