News briefs for May 18, 2001

Friday, May 18, 2001 | 10:40 a.m.

Man suspected in assault of girl, 8

Metro Police are searching for a convicted sex offender who is alleged to have sexually assaulted a young girl in Las Vegas over the last three years.

Gene Anthoney Allen is suspected to be in Las Vegas and may be living with a family, Sgt. Ron Williams said.

Allen allegedly sexually assaulted a family member in Las Vegas over the last three years starting when she was 8, police said. A Las Vegas Justice Court warrant without bail has been issued charging Allen with three counts of sexual assault of a child.

"We believe he is still in the area, possibly having befriended a family within a church community," Williams said.

Allen is a convicted sex offender from Adams, Colo., where he assaulted the 9-year-old girl, police said.

Anyone with information about Allen's whereabouts is asked to call Metro's sexual assault detail at 229-3421 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Sexual assault of youth charged

A 36-year-old youth softball coach was arrested Sunday and charged with 17 counts of sexual assault with a victim under 16.

Richard Goheen is also charged with six counts of lewdness with a minor, Metro Police said.

Goheen has been active as a coach in a girls softball league in northwest Las Vegas for the past two years.

Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Sgt. Ron Williams with Metro's sexual assault detail at 229-3421 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Trial set for October

Anthony Dotson, a man accused of killing a 79-year-old woman in December and robbing another elderly woman days later, faces trial Oct. 10 in District Court.

The date was set Thursday for Dotson, charged with murder, robbery, first-degree kidnapping and burglary. The first three charges will be enhanced because his victims were at least 65.

Police said that a day or so before Doris Bair died, Bair called police to report a prowler was ringing her front doorbell and knocking on her back door. She also told police that a few minutes later, her lights went out, apparently the result of a circuit breaker being switched off.

Dotson will also face charges in the robbing of Kathryn Waldman, 87. He allegedly stole her purse and car from the parking lot of University Medical Center.

Possible 15th case uncovered

Nevada health officials are investigating a possible 15th case of childhood leukemia in Fallon.

Fallon residents who are relatives of a child living outside Nevada reported the child had been diagnosed with leukemia, but there is no medical confirmation.

State epidemiologist Dr. Randall Todd said the Health Division is requesting more information on the case. So far, no common environmental link has been established among the children, except that they lived in Fallon, 60 miles west of Reno.

The confirmed cases include a girl with acute myelogenous leukemia, or AML, a less common form of childhood leukemia and 13 other cases of acute lymphocytic leukemia, or ALL, the most common form.

Elderly couple are hospitalized

An 82-year-old Las Vegas woman remained in critical condition today after a two-car collision that also put her husband, the driver of the vehicle, in the same hospital, Metro Police said.

Evelyn Kellogg was listed in critical condition at University Medical Center's Trauma Intensive Care Unit this morning after the 6:30 p.m. accident Thursday at Las Vegas Boulevard South and Pebble Road.

Her husband, Ralph Kellogg, also 82, was in fair condition at UMC.

Michele Kolek, 28, of Las Vegas, the driver of the other car, was treated at St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson for what police called minor injuries.

Police said the Kelloggs' car, a Cadillac, was westbound on Pebble Road when it failed to yield at a stop sign, collided with Kolek's southbound Ford Explorer, jumped a curb, drove through a convenience store parking lot and crashed into a steel support post of the gas pump canopy. No citations were issued pending the conclusion of the police investigation.