Hearing set for suspect in sex assault

Wednesday, June 9, 1999 | 11:56 a.m.

A June 18 preliminary hearing was set today for a man accused of sexually assaulting one woman patient and fondling another at Summerlin Hospital.

Justice of the Peace James Bixler set the 9 a.m. hearing in his courtroom for Roy Alan O'Guinn, 38, who was charged with five counts of sexual assault stemming from the May 27 incident.

O'Guinn, who is in custody at the Clark County Detention Center, made no statement at today's arraignment nor did he enter a plea.

He is represented by Deputy Public Defender Joe Abood. The prosecutor is Deputy District Attorney Doug Herndon.

O'Guinn, a North Las Vegas resident, has prior convictions for sexual offenses. Police records show O'Guinn was convicted of sex crimes in California in 1980 and in Nevada in 1989.

O'Guinn was registered as a sex offender with both Metro Police and Nevada Parole and Probation. He was not on parole during the alleged incidents, police said.

The present charges against O'Guinn include five counts of sexual assault of a victim over 65, one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault and one count of open and gross lewdness.

Police say that a man entered the Summerlin Hospital at about 8 p.m. and went into a patient's room and fondled her.

Police say the man fled when the woman ordered him to leave and paged a nurse for help.

The man then entered the room of another woman patient, who was identified only as being older than 65, and sexually assaulted her, police said, noting that a nurse witnessed part of the assault.

"O'Guinn tried to flee the hospital, but a Summerlin Hospital security officer caught him and detained him for police," Metro Police Lt. Tom Monahan said shortly after the arrest.

A rape earlier this year in Summerlin had residents on edge after a Las Vegas woman was abducted from the well-lighted parking lot of a busy shopping complex, driven to the desert and raped.

The victim told police she was opening her car door when someone grabbed her from behind and pulled her into a car parked next to hers at the complex on West Lake Mead Boulevard near Buffalo Drive.