Tanner Castro, a deputy district attorney, faces charges of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person with use of computer technology to engage in sexual conduct and attempted statuary sexual seduction by a person over 21, according to the Henderson Justice Court website.
Those taken during the sweep included 24 men and one woman on suspicion of crimes such as domestic violence, sexual assault and abuse of an older person.
A former employee at a youth psychiatric facility has pleaded guilty to child abuse involving sexual abuse and sexual conduct with children.
Mohamed Muhina, 28, pleaded guilty in November to one count of sexual exploitation of children.
An employee at a North Las Vegas high school was arrested Tuesday.
“A lot of victims don’t recognize themselves as victims,” survivor Jessica Kay said. “That is something that we see often when doing this work.”
Anyone who may have been a victim or has information about the crime is urged to contact the North Las Vegas Police Department
CCSD said in a news release Thursday that 57-year-old Calvin Pouncy was arrested in relation to an investigation from August 2022.
Suspect Troy Driver sent his girlfriend a letter from jail last year that described a “terrible darkness” inside him. He killed himself earlier this month.
Wanqing Fan, an employee at Wei Wei Foot Spa at the time, was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault and kidnapping.
James Wynhoff pleaded guilty to charges of attempted child sex trafficking and possession of child pornography, prosecutors said.
North Las Vegas police have accused a former airman of raping his family’s 16-year-old babysitter.
Ricardo Mederos, a former charge nurse at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to twice committing lewd acts in front of a patient.
Rayshod Arberry, 33, a custodian at Von Tobel Middle School, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center.
A man arrested on sex trafficking charges in Las Vegas was released from a Wisconsin prison three years ago for the same crimes.
