The wife of Jackson County Legislator Manuel “Manny” Abarca IV on Wednesday filed a court motion asking that a judge find her husband in contempt of court for allegedly violating conditions of a protective order, online court records show.

The documents to support the motion had not yet been redacted and were not publicly available. A Jackson County judge on Friday granted a protective order that prohibited Abarca from making contact with his spouse and granted her custody of their 2-year-old son.

Records show Abarca was served with that order around 5 p.m. on Friday. However, Alexis Garcia and her son had not been reunited as of Tuesday evening, according to an update she posted on her Facebook page.

She filed a missing persons report with the Shawnee Police Department on Sunday afte

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