A judge referred to two men as “animals” on Thursday as he sent them to prison for decades for kidnapping and gang raping a tourist on the Las Vegas Strip.
Sex Crimes
A Las Vegas man has been charged with suspicion of raping and molesting two children under the age of 14.
A campus monitor at Del Sol Academy was arrested Monday on charges of kidnapping and sexual acts with a student.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Monday to 70 months in prison for receiving child pornography, the U.S. attorney for Nevada announced.
Martin Gillen “was welcomed into people’s homes under the guise of being a devoutly religious man,” according to Clark County prosecutors. “He befriends parents and then victimizes their children.”
A Hawaii man was arrested Saturday on sexual assault and battery charges after a woman reported that he had attacked her in a room at the Fremont.
The U.S. Marshals Service and Las Vegas police are conducting a three-day joint enforcement operation in Clark County as part of an ongoing effort to make Halloween safer for children.
A Mormon church official said Friday that a man facing lewdness, child pornography and kidnapping charges was not acting in his role as a home teacher when the alleged crimes occurred.
As Henderson police tried to arrest Martin Gillen at his home in August on a charge of lewdness with a child, the registered sex offender stabbed himself in the throat, saying he did not want to return to prison, according to prosecutors.
North Las Vegas detectives on Thursday arrested Jorge Burgos at his office for multiple counts of open and gross lewdness, according to a spokesman.
District Judge Eric Johnson sentenced Sean P. Cordeiro on Tuesday to 96 years to life in prison for a series of attacks and burglaries in February 2014.
The FBI’s Las Vegas division on Monday said it found three minors and arrested 44 adult prostitutes as part of Operation Cross Country X, an international effort focused on stopping underage human trafficking.
A volunteer football coach at Silverado High School was accused of sexual misconduct on Friday with a 16-year-old female student, Clark County School District Police said.
A Nye County School District employee was arrested Tuesday in connection with the sexual assault of a 17-year-old student.
North Las Vegas police have fielded several calls in connection with the Wednesday arrest of North Las Vegas doctor Jorge Burgos on lewdness charges. “Some allege they may be victims, some are calling as character witnesses, stating that Dr. Burgos is very professional,” according to police.