A former Las Vegas police Explorer was convicted Monday of sexual assault of a minor after prosecutors accused him of maintaining a yearslong sexual relationship with a teen, starting when she was 11.
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Attorneys presented closing arguments and jurors began deliberations Friday in a case that defense attorneys say “dropped a bomb” on prosecutors on the first day.
Attorney and College of Southern Nevada professor Mark Peplowski has been arrested on lewdness charges.
Nevada is awarding $2.7 million to Las Vegas police to continue to pay for testing a backlog of thousands of sexual assault evidence kits, including some that went untested for up to 30 years.
A woman filed a lawsuit Tuesday that accuses Centennial Hills Hospital Medical Center of failing to protect her from a psychiatric patient who tried to sexually assault her.
Henderson police arrested a day care worker this week and accused her of posting a video of a child’s genitals to a social media site.
A Las Vegas chiropractor is accused of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl at a residence last week, records show.
The teenager who accused a former Las Vegas police Explorer of a years-long sexual relationship with her changed her story on the stand.
Las Vegas police have released a sketch of a man wanted in connection with the attempted sexual assault of a jogger earlier this month.
Police report that former Clark High School coach Juan Alfredo Chavez first tried to hug the student, then attempted to kiss her on the lips before a school football game.
A former volunteer soccer coach at Clark High School in Las Vegas was arrested Thursday on a felony lewdness charge involving a child.
Las Vegas police are looking for a suspect in an attempted sexual assault that occurred Saturday morning at Desert Breeze Park.
North Las Vegas police arrested a 34-year-old youth corrections employee and accused him of sexual assault.
Nye County sheriff’s deputies arrested a 23-year-old man in Beatty on suspicion of kidnapping, sexual assault and other charges connected to the disappearance of a New York woman he reportedly met online, authorities said Friday.
Arturo Martinez took the witness stand Thursday during the death penalty trial of Bryan Clay, who is accused of raping and killing the man’s wife and 10-year-old daughter in April 2012.