The Clark County District Attorney’s office wants federal funds to hire a second prosecutor dedicated to a backlog of thousands of sexual assault forensic examination kits.
Sex Crimes
Authorities have determined that the victim of a rape and attempted murder was a 25-year-old man, not a teenager.
A man was charged with attempted murder and sexual assault of a teenage boy at an east Las Vegas homeless camp, according to an arrest report.
Woman, 80, relates Sunday morning attack in which a man pointed gun at her forehead and pulled the trigger. A suspect was charged with attempted murder and sexual assault after a home break-in Sunday morning, Las Vegas police said.
A 39-year-old man is accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on multiple occasions over the past year in Las Vegas, court documents show.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to more than five years in prison Tuesday after he was convicted of possessing more than 15,600 photos and dozens of videos of child pornography, federal officials announced.
A woman alleges she was sexually assaulted and threatened with a hammer and handgun before she was held captive in an apartment in June, court documents show.
A Las Vegas judge on Thursday vacated the death penalty for a Vietnam War veteran who raped and killed a 68-year-old woman more than 10 years ago.
The victim says officer Manuel Gutierrez, 37, attacked her while she was visiting his wife on Saturday, according to a Metropolitan Police Department arrest report. Gutierrez said the sex was consensual, it said.
Metropolitan Police Department officer Manuel Gutierrez was arrested Saturday and is being held at the Clark County Detention Center with a bail of $25,000.
A senior airman stationed at Nellis Air Force Base was arrested last month on child pornography charges, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has learned.
A man suspected of sexually assaulting a woman at gunpoint inside his car last month remained at large Friday.
A man who sexually assaulted and killed a 7-year-old girl more than two decades ago was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal sued the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department on Thursday over the agency’s response to public records requests about sex trafficking cases and prostitution arrests.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man suspected of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint last week.