A former police officer was arrested outside the Kansas City home ofTravis Kelce while allegedly trying to serve Taylor Swift, his fiancée, with deposition papers.
According to court filings, Justin Lee Fisher, 36, was taken into custody around 2 a.m. on September 15 after allegedly scaling a fence at Kelce’s residence in Leawood, Kansas.
Kelce, 35, and Swift, 35, have been engaged since late August.
Police documents cite charges related to trespassing on private property within a secured neighborhood.
Fisher was reportedly working on behalf of actor Justin Baldoni’s legal team, who are embroiled in an ongoing court battle with actress Blake Lively.
Swift’s name surfaced in the dispute earlier this year, placing her briefly on the periphery of the legal fight.
The case, Blake Lively v. Wayfarer Studios LLC, et al., stems from a lawsuit Lively filed last December, accusing Baldoni – her co-star and director – as well as his company and representatives, of sexual harassment and retaliation.
After denying the damning allegations, Baldoni’s camp filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit, suing both Lively and her husband, Deadpool icon Ryan Reynolds, as well as publicist Leslie Sloane and her PR firm, Vision PR Inc.
Refuting that he caused Lively ‘severe emotional distress,’ Baldoni began seeking damages of $400million (£323m) in his countersuit following her attempt to ‘destroy’ his reputation and career’.
Lively and Reynolds’ lawyers then filed a notice saying they wished to seek to dismiss Baldoni’s suit, with their legal team labelling the lawsuit ‘baseless’.
All defendants deny the allegations and a trial date has been set for March 2026. Swift’s involvement is tangential but highly publicised.
Freedman alleged in a now-dismissed countersuit that Blake’s lawyer threatened to leak private messages between the actress and Taylor if the singer did not release a statement supporting her.
In his complaint, Baldoni also claimed that Taylor and Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, 48, pressured him into accepting one of Lively’s rewrites for the film after he was summoned to Lively and Reynolds’s New York City apartment.
Mike Gottlieb, Blake’s lawyer, denied the claim, and Lewis J Liman, the judge in the case, granted his motion to strike the letter from the docket in May.
Although a judge dismissed parts of Baldoni’s claims in June, his team later sought to depose Swift. That request was rejected just two days before the incident at Kelce’s home.
It had originally been claimed by Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, that Swift had agreed to the deposition.
People Magazine reported that he told U.S. District Judge Lewis J. Liman that the singer ‘has agreed to appear for deposition’ but couldn’t do so before October 20 because of ‘long-standing professional obligations.’
However, Swift’s attorney Douglas Baldridge has filed that this is false, according to The Mirror.
He said: ‘My client did not agree to a deposition, but if she is forced into a deposition, we advised (after first hearing about the deposition just three days ago) that her schedule would accommodate the time required during the week of October 20 if the parties were able to work out their disputes.’
Lively’s lawyer previously claimed it’s another move by Baldoni’s team ‘to fuel their relentless media strategy.’
Fisher, once an officer with the Fort Scott Police Department, served from 2013 until 2021 before briefly continuing as a part-time lawman.
His law enforcement certification was revoked in 2023 following a domestic dispute, according to records from the Kansas Commission on Peace Officer’s Standards and Training.
Following his arrest in Leawood, Fisher told Star magazine: ‘I’ll be happy to talk to you about it when it is resolved. [I] wasn’t hurt or anything besides being arrested for doing my job and possibly losing my [private eye] license.’
He is scheduled to appear in Leawood Municipal Court on October 15.
Kelce, also 35, was reportedly not home at the time.
The Leawood Police Department initially redacted details of the arrest report, citing restrictions on disclosure, but court documents later confirmed Fisher’s identity and charges.
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