A former Las Vegas police officer accused of raping and killing a woman more than 20 years ago was ordered held without bail Monday.
Sex Crimes
Kweku Turkson, 37, an English teacher at West Prep Academy, was arrested Friday by Metropolitan Police Department officers and is jailed on counts of lewdness and attempted lewdness with a minor.
The Palo Verde High School student facing sexual assault charges was arrested at home on Thursday before he went to school, his attorney said.
A Palo Verde High School student was indicted Wednesday on sexual assault charges after authorities accused him of raping at least four teenage classmates while he attended Shadow Ridge High School.
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.
Six children accused a Las Vegas third-grade teacher of inappropriately touching them at some point during the 2016-17 school year, court documents show.
Las Vegas police on Monday released a sketch of a man suspected of trying to sexually assault a woman as she returned home from taking out the trash late last month.
Las Vegas police arrested a former Clark County School District elementary school teacher Thursday on multiple counts of lewdness with a child.
Las Vegas police are looking for a man who entered a woman’s home while she was taking out the trash, hid in her closet, and tried to sexually assault her when she returned.
A Spirit Airlines passenger has been jailed after a fellow passenger says she was sexually assaulted while asleep on a flight from Las Vegas to Detroit.
A Nevada man was sentenced Wednesday to more than 12 years in prison for distribution of child pornography, the Justice Department said.
Former Strip illusionist Jan Rouven wants to back out of his plea to federal child pornography charges, but a judge said Friday that she needs to analyze evidence to determine whether he understood the possible prison sentence he could face.
A little over a week after he was convicted of sexual assault of a minor, a former Las Vegas police Explorer is back in custody.
College of Southern Nevada professor Mark Peplowski was arrested again this month — for allegedly having sex in public — but administrators have been mum on the topic.
A San Francisco police officer who killed himself after being pulled over by police in a neighboring city was under investigation for child sexual abuse in Las Vegas, authorities said Tuesday.