A former White Mountain Apache police officer was arrested Wednesday in Canyon Day on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation stemming from a 15-count grand jury indictment alleging serial sexual abuse and kidnapping. Federal law enforcement authorities are now asking for any additional victims to come forward.
The Pinetop-Lakeside Resident Agency — often responsible for handling federal criminal matters throughout Indian Country in eastern Arizona — under the FBI’s Phoenix Division investigated in tandem with its main field office.
Arizona prosecutors are making their case against 42-year-old Karl Eugene Leslie in federal court. He is accused of sexually abusing and kidnapping victims while on-duty between December 2020 and September 2023…