News briefs for August 23, 2005

Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2005 | 9:57 a.m.

Arrest made in sexual assaults

Metro Police detectives said they arrested a 20-year-old man on sexual assault and burglary charges Monday after a series of crimes committed in the past two weeks in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.

The crimes included home invasion, attempted sexual assault and sexual assault in and around the 3300 block of North Tenaya Way.

In those cases, a man had gotten into apartments by either forcing a door or coming through an unlocked door, police said. Women inside the apartments were attacked, police said.

Christopher Lee Simon was arrested in Las Vegas in connection with the cases, police said. He is charged with three counts of sexual assault, two counts of burglary and one count of attempted sexual assault and one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault.

Simon is originally from Louisiana but currently lives in Las Vegas, police said.

Man arrested in partner's slaying

Metro Police on Sunday arrested 21-year-old Amon Naquito Ball, also known as "Loc," in connection with the July 21 slaying of his rap music partner at a recording studio.

Ball is charged with murder in the July 21 fatal shooting of Keith R. Jett, 28, at Salgood Studios in the 4400 block of West Hacienda Avenue.

The pair got involved in an argument at the studio which resulted in Jett's death, police said.

Police arrest man in stabbing death

Metro Police arrested a man Monday night for allegedly stabbing another man to death in an alley along the 200 block of West Baltimore Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard and Sahara Avenue.

Lazaro Vera-Osio, age unavailable, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon, police said.

Responding to a report of a fight in the alley on Baltimore Avenue at around 10:15 p.m., Metro found Vera-Osio with blood on his shirt, and he was uncooperative with officers, police said.

Metro searched the area and found a 30-year-old man with stab wounds to his neck and chest. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The dead man's name had not been released this morning by the Clark County Coroner's office.

An investigation found that Vera-Osio had been arguing with the victim prior to the stabbing, police said.