With national media watching, jury selection started Monday in the trial of a former mixed martial arts fighter known as War Machine, accused of beating and sexually assaulting a former girlfriend.
Sex Crimes
The Nevada Department of Corrections reported that inmate Edmond Krotz died Wednesday morning.
After multiple delays, a trial is set to begin next week for ex-MMA fighter War Machine, who is accused of beating and sexually assaulting his girlfriend in 2014.
A former Las Vegas teacher was arrested Sunday on charges of sexual assault and lewdness with a 9-year-old student.
After the verdict Friday, Jerry Earl Johnson, who was acquitted of a second charge, was taken into custody without bail. He faces 10 years to life in prison at an April sentencing for the 2009 incident at Wyndham Grand Desert hotel.
A 10-year-old girl called Las Vegas police this month to report that she had been sexually molested, and records show that a family friend has been arrested in the case.
A Henderson man was arrested this month on domestic battery charges after his girlfriend escaped her apartment and flagged down a stranger for help, according to an arrest report obtained this week by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim escaped from a hotel room at the Palms on Friday, according to a Las Vegas police report, and three suspects have been arrested.
Arbor View High School’s athletic director had his bail set Tuesday at $1.5 million in his child pornography case and now faces additional charges, including first-degree kidnapping.
Researchers reviewed 159 sex trafficking cases that were investigated by Las Vegas police in 2014 and found that nearly three-quarters of them did not result in prosecution.
A man and his girlfriend are being held in the Clark County Detention Center and face charges of sex trafficking a 16-year-old Las Vegas girl in January, jail records show.
A man on Nevada’s sex offender registry was sentenced Friday in New Mexico to 30 years in prison for assaulting a 6-year-old girl.
A former Las Vegas hotel security guard took advantage of two intoxicated women and raped them in their rooms, prosecutors said Friday.
Arbor View High School’s longtime athletic director told a student he had many side businesses, including one that involved selling pictures of boys in varying states of undress, according to his arrest report.
North Las Vegas police need the public’s help identifying a man involved in an indecent exposure case.
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