IN BRIEF

HELD ON $24,000 BOND

Pastor faces charges of lewdness with child

A 56-year-old local pastor was arrested last week on lewdness charges with a child, according to a Las Vegas police report.

Ladislao "Constantino" Morales is being held on $24,000 bond at the Clark County Detention Center on two charges of lewdness with a minor under 14 and four counts of open and gross lewdness.

Morales, a pastor of the local Centro Evangelistico Alfa y Omega church, is accused of engaging in the acts with a young female church member. The acts took place over four years and began when the girl was 10.

Morales was arrested Aug. 25 by Las Vegas police.

SEVERAL PROBLEMS ALLEGED

State shuts down group home in LV

State health authorities forced a Las Vegas group home to shut its doors Aug. 13 after investigators found several deficiencies, including the failure to properly administer medication and the lack of food and running water at the facility.

Seven elderly, disabled or mentally ill patients from Sanchez Home Care, 4504 La Roca Circle, were moved to other group homes, according to Marla McWilliams, chief of the State Health Division's Bureau of Licensure and Certification.

Four inspections since April also found that group home employees improperly restrained a resident, failed to take a patient to a dialysis treatment and accepted a patient with medical needs that the facility could not provide.

According to McWilliams, the home had been owned during the inspection period by Frank R. Sanchez Enterprises and has since been sold.

The current and previous owners could not be reached.