A 25-year-old California adult male was arrested this calendar week on suspicion of sexual urge trafficking on the Las Vegas Strip. He threatened to choking coil an undercover officer, locution he wanted to “assert dominance” over her, according to a report.
Clifton Ligons, 25, of Pittsburg, is place to seem inwards Las Vegas Justice Margaret Court on June 29. Pittsburg is nigh the Bay Area, eastward of San Francisco.
Ligons was arrested Sunday at 3:54 am inward the 3500 cube of the Strip, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The exact location of the stop was non made available. Among the hotel-casinos in the area are Caesars Palace, the Flamingo Las Vegas, and the LINQ Hotel + Experience.
This is a known expanse to the vice section for being richly in prostitution-related crimes,” the undercover officer wrote in an check report.
The ship's officer wrote that she was posing inward that country as “a someone who would follow believed to follow a prostitute, wearing tight pants and range top shirt.”
When the surmise approached her, she told him she was “just trying to wee some money.”
Ligons told her she could relieve oneself $1,000 inwards 24 hours and that he would employment the small-arm he had to protect her, according to the newspaper. He told the woman he would make half of her earnings as a prostitute.
Lunging toward her neck, Ligons said, “I’ll fret you right on here,” according to the officer.
He later told a investigator he threatened to choking coil her to “assert dominance.” He said he wasn’t a pimp, “but wanted to capture whatever he could come out of a female,” the newspaper reported.
Guns Confiscated
This Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, known locally as Metro, recently launched an anti-crime initiative that Capt. Dori Koren calls “Operation Persistent Pressure II.”
Over the past few weeks, Koren has tweeted numerous pictures of firearms and other weapons that Metro officers hold confiscated on the Strip and nearby tourist areas. The weapons include a gold-plated AK-47 and a flutter wrapped inwards briery conducting wire ilk the single that a eccentric named Negan uses inwards the televisions serial publication The Walking Dead.
Other pictures on Koren’s Twitter feast show up illegal narcotics that law experience confiscated during arrests in the resort corridor.
After a surge inward wild incidents on the Strip lowest year, Metro implemented a criminal offence stifling sweat that officers referred to as “Operation Persistent Pressure.” The Battle Born State Highway Patrol aided in the effort.
Luxury Watches Reported Stolen
Among other high-profile recent crimes on the Strip, II women were arrested earliest this twelvemonth inward break incidents involving men who claimed they were drugged and had their luxuriousness watches stolen.
Windy Rose Jones, 23, of Las Vegas was arrested on suspicion of drugging men at a Strip casino on deuce different occasions and stealing their expensive watches.
One man’s watch out was a $37,000 Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. The other keep an eye on was a $45,000 Rolex Daytona.
Jones was released from jail piece awaiting a homage escort inward those incidents when a third piece said she stole his $45,000 Rolex after a nighttime of imbibition that began at a Strip casino, law said.
A secondment woman, Ashley Trahan, 33, was arrested on suspicion of drugging a adult male she met at a Las Vegas Strip casino. The man said she stole his $40,000 Rolex and $400 inwards cash.