The U. Courthouse stands in downtown Wichita in Frederick Tanzer, 66, was arrested at his home in the greater Cincinnati area Dec. He has had an active medical license in Kansas since , and appears to have practiced at the Hutchinson Regional Medical Center, according to a Kansas Board of Healing Arts registry. Two additional victims have come forward since the U. A six-count indictment filed Wednesday charged Tanzer with four counts of making false statements to a federal officer and two counts of making or using a false document or writing.
Each carries a maximum prison sentence of five years. Tanzer has been a doctor since the s and was working at Cincinnati-area hospitals at the time of his arrest, according to court documents. Law enforcement officials say Tanzer raped a woman he knew at knifepoint on Aug. Investigators confronted Tanzer at his home in the greater Cincinnati area this month. Tanzer denied in spoken and written statements interacting with the woman he raped, and agents arrested him on suspicion of making false statements to law enforcement.
Tanzer has practiced medicine in Ohio, Kansas and Colorado. He received a degree from the University of Ohio College of Medicine in A representative for the U. Kansas Reflector is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a c 3 public charity. Kansas Reflector maintains editorial independence.
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Anna grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, where she began writing for publication as a year-old, but she honed her skills covering government and public safety for a daily newspaper in Bend, Oregon. By: Anna Kaminski - December 20, pm. Tanzer will remain in prison while awaiting trial. A coffee cup was key to connecting a Kansas doctor to a rape in Ohio through DNA analysis, and additional victims, including one in Kansas, have come forward.
