The operation targeted people allegedly using the internet to lure minors for sexual exploitation, according to a Mohave County Sheriff’s Office news release.
Sex Crimes
A Las Vegas pastor accused of sexually abusing girls at his church since at least 2016 faced a judge on Tuesday.
Bramwell Bernardo Retana, 44, the pastor of Iglesia Cristiana Oasis De Paz, now faces a total of 40 felony counts arising from his alleged abuse of underage girls.
A 79-year-old Henderson man is charged with possessing child pornography after police found more than 643 images and videos of child pornography.
A Las Vegas man was arrested on Jan. 3 after he was accused of touching himself outside of a preschool playground.
A Las Vegas man was arrested on Thursday after his fingerprints linked him to a sexual assault from 2015.
After media reports of a local pastor’s arrest on suspicion of sexually abusing children, four more girls told police they had been abused, according to arrest reports released Tuesday.
The Metropolitan Police Department previously said detectives believe that, because of the man’s position at his church, there may be more unidentified victims.
Devon Cervin was indicted Wednesday on two counts of sexual assault, one count of first-degree kidnapping and one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault.
A North Las Vegas man made his first court appearance Tuesday after a grand jury indicted him on a myriad of charges, including child sex trafficking.
A man who promised a woman Christmas Day dinner at his grandmother’s Las Vegas home instead led the woman to an abandoned house and sexually assaulted her, police said.
A Las Vegas man who had been previously been accused of sexual seduction of minors is facing 11 counts of sex assault.
The Rape Crisis Center is encouraging partygoers to stick together on New Year’s Eve to protect young women from sexual violence.
The Nevada Department of Corrections said Pedro Mejia, 58, died Saturday at 5:42 a.m. at the Hospice Unit at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City.
Refuge for Women is a national organization designed to help survivors of sex trafficking. The Las Vegas branch opened in 2015.
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