A local campaign geared toward stopping human trafficking began earlier this month, with posters featuring hotlines appearing in bus stops across the valley.
Sex Crimes
Richard Loughry, 48, was ordered Monday to serve up to five years of probation and register as a sex offender for paying a teenage girl $300 for sex at a fire station.
Las Vegas police on Saturday arrested a man suspected of threatening a woman with a box cutter and sexually assaulting her at a northwest valley park on Thursday.
A man threatened a woman with a box cutter and sexually assaulted her at a northwest Las Vegas park Thursday morning, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
A high school employee turned herself into law enforcement in May after she allegedly had inappropriate contact with a student, school police said Tuesday.
Court records show that Gary Erickson of Bunkerville avoided trial with his plea on Monday to a charge of crossing state lines to engage in illicit sexual conduct.
John Robert Morris, a theater teacher who retired from the Clark County School District last May, faces up to four years of probation.
One of two lawsuits accusing international soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo of obstructing the criminal investigation into claims of sexual assault in Las Vegas has been dismissed, but an identical lawsuit in federal court remains active.
The lawsuit, filed last week in District Court, claims the district and Maysen Melton’s parents disregarded other students’ safety by allowing him to stay in public school.
Prosecutors lodged seven new felony charges Thursday against Matthew Terry, who is accused of committing sex acts with several children.
A Las Vegas man who sexually tortured children for a decade was sentenced Tuesday to 54 life prison sentences. A judge called him “highly selfish” with “a very perverted mind.”
Matthew Zakzewski describes himself on his website as a “manny” who relates well to children and serves them as a “buddy, big brother, role model, mentor.”
A 38-year-old Las Vegas man wanted for sexual assault and attempted murder was arrested Monday by U.S. Marshals in the central valley.
A 21-year-old custodian stands accused of sexual misconduct with a student after an investigation began last week at a Las Vegas high school.
A Sunrise Mountain High School athletic coach was fired after a man police said was a volunteer coach was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a student.
