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As part of a plea agreement, Preston M. Kimoto entered a guilty plea Monday before Chief U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson to a charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping using a facility of interstate commerce.
Preston Kimoto is the seventh of Mike Miske’s original 10 co-defendants to plead guilty and flip on their former boss.
Preston Kimoto had been on pretrial release but was arrested by federal agents on Tuesday.
National reports show students have fallen behind academically at historic levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic–with disproportionate effects on students of color. Some people in mid-Missouri are working to reverse that trend.