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2 arrested in connection with illegal brothels

Javier Garcia-Rodelascq, 42, left, and Edelmira Beltran-Blancocq, 41. (Courtesy, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Zef Sandoval talks to a reporter during a break from making repairs at the house he owns in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police called Sandoval on Wednesday night to tell him the house had been turned into a brothel, and he drove from St. George, Utah, to put things in order. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Zef Sandoval talks to a reporter during a break from making repairs at the house he owns in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police called Sandoval on Wednesday night to tell him the house had been turned into a brothel, and he drove from St. George, Utah, to put things in order. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Signs are posted on a house in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police say two houses on the street were being used to operate brothels. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Zef Sandoval chips glass out of a window frame at the house he owns in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police called Sandoval on Wednesday night to tell him the house had been turned into a brothel, and he drove from St. George, Utah, to put things in order. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Zef Sandoval talks to a reporter during a break from making repairs at the house he owns in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police called Sandoval on Wednesday night to tell him the house had been turned into a brothel, and he drove from St. George, Utah, to put things in order. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Zef Sandoval takes a break from making repairs at the house he owns in the 1800 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015. Police called Sandoval on Wednesday night to tell him the house had been turned into a brothel, and he drove from St. George, Utah, to put things in order. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Damage is visible at a house in the 2300 block of Walnut Street on Thursday, July 2, 2015, one of two locations on the street where police say brothels were operating. (Greg Haas/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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By WESLEY JUHL LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
July 2, 2015 - 4:58 pm
 

Two people were arrested Wednesday in connection with two brothels police said were operating in central Las Vegas.

Javier Garcia-Rodelas, 42, faces five counts of pandering adults for prostitution and five counts of receiving earnings from prostitution. Edelmira Beltran-Blanco, 41, faces a sex trafficking charge, four counts of pandering adults for prostitution and three counts of receiving earnings from prostitution. Garcia-Rodela is being held at the Clark County Detention Center with bail set at $30,000. Beltran is also being held at the detention center with bail set at $31,000.

The Clark County district attorney’s office is expected to file official charges against them Monday morning, according to detention center records.

Las Vegas police said its Vice and Sex Trafficking Investigations Section received tips in February that the brothels were operating out of homes in the 1800 and 2300 blocks of Walnut Avenue, near Bonanza Road and Eastern Avenue. Those tips led to search warrants and arrests Wednesday.

The FBI and Homeland Security investigators joined Metro as part of the Southern Nevada Human Trafficking Task Force, police said.

Anyone with any information about these suspects or this case can contact the Vice and Sex Trafficking Investigations Section at 702-828-3455.

Contact Wesley Juhl at wjuhl@reviewjournal.com and 702-383-0391. Find him on Twitter: @WesJuhl.

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