Five men were indicted Thursday in connection with a lucrative sex-trafficking ring operating out of Clark County.
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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.
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.
A former Las Vegas police explorer must spend at least 25 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, but a judge said he may remain free while appealing his conviction.
Former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn has filed a defamation lawsuit against The Associated Press and others for what his attorneys described as “false accusations of rape.”
A Las Vegas man was arrested last week after authorities accused him of raping a teenage member of his church, police and court records show.
Nearly 34 years after Nancy Menke was raped and murdered, Scotty Sloan admitted his guilt for the first time to the Nevada Parole Board, which granted his release. He is scheduled to walk free in less than a month.
A Las Vegas police officer pleaded not guilty Wednesday to dozens of sexual assault and kidnapping charges involving a child.
A veteran Las Vegas police officer was indicted Wednesday on more than two dozen kidnapping and sexual assault charges involving a child.
Roger Brown, the former longtime athletic director at Arbor View High School in Las Vegas, was sentenced to serve at least three years in prison for production of pornography involving a minor and sexual contact with a pupil.
Bryan Clay was formally sentenced Thursday on charges related to the murders of Ignacia “Yadira” Martinez, 38, and her 10-year-old daughter, Karla. Clay alluded to an appeal, telling District Judge Douglas Herndon, “We’re not done yet. It’s not complete.”
Maysen Melton, accused of raping four high school classmates and sexually harassing others, had been disciplined for sexual deviancy as early as February 2011, when he was a 9-year-old student at Bracken Elementary School, prosecutors said in court papers filed this week.
A former Las Vegas police officer accused of raping and killing a woman more than 20 years ago was ordered held without bail Monday.
Attorneys for former Las Vegas police Explorer Josh Honea are seeking an acquittal or a new trial after they said two jurors in the defendant’s sexual assault trial engaged in misconduct. But the judge in the case said she will review established case law before making a decision.
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