Michael Mikkelsen, DUI checkpoint protester, pleads guilty to sexual misconduct

• Bethany Day
• Mikkelsen was sentenced to two years of probabtion.

In a Columbia courtroom on Tuesday, Michael Mikkelsen, a well-known Kansas City libertarian activist, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual misconduct. The case dates back to August 2011. A woman told police that she and her boyfriend spent a night drinking with Mikkelsen in Columbia. When she awoke in bed with her boyfriend the next morning, she told police, Mikkelsen was on top of her having intercourse with her. At the time, he denied the allegations.

Judge Kevin Crane sentenced Mikkelsen to a suspended nine-month jail sentence and two years of supervised probation. Mikkelsen was the central character in a Pitch feature story in November 2011 about his work protesting KCPD DUI checkpoints. He was known for standing a couple of blocks down the street from checkpoints and holding a sign that read “Checkpoint ahead.”