Facebook
Fark
Digg
Reddit
StumbleNorth Las Vegas officer arrested, accused of misconduct
Published Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 | 10:20 a.m.
Updated Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008 | 1:58 p.m.
James Vernon Clayton
A three-year veteran of the North Las Vegas Police Department was arrested today and charged with felony misconduct after a five-month investigation.
Authorities arrested officer James Vernon Clayton, 40, at 9:15 a.m. Tuesday. He was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on five counts of misconduct of a public officer, a felony; two counts of oppression under color of office, a felony; and one count of open and gross lewdness, a misdemeanor. Authorities said he allegedly sought dates and sexual favors from women he stopped for traffic violations.
Police spokeswoman Chrissie Coon said the victims were five adult females. The incidents allegedly occurred while Clayton was on duty as a patrol officer, she said.
Coon said authorities are hoping that any additional victims will come forward. None of the women reported being physically harmed or sexually assaulted, although documents show that one alleged that Clayton exposed himself and tried to touch her.
Clayton was arrested on a warrant after a five-month criminal investigation conducted by North Las Vegas Police investigators. Coon said an internal affairs investigation will begin at the conclusion of the criminal investigation.
Clayton has been on paid administrative leave since July.
Anyone with other information regarding the case is being asked to contact police at 633-1946.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Discussion: comments so far…
Comments are moderated by Las Vegas Sun editors. Our goal is not to limit the discussion, but rather to elevate it. Comments should be relevant and contain no abusive language. Comments that are off-topic, vulgar, profane or include personal attacks will be removed. Full comments policy. Additionally, we now display comments from trusted commenters by default. Those wishing to become a trusted commenter need to verify their identity or sign in with Facebook Connect to tie their Facebook account to their Las Vegas Sun account. For more on this change, read our story about how it works and why we did it.
Only trusted comments are displayed on this page. Untrusted comments have expired from this story.
No trusted comments have been posted.
Post a comment
Most Popular
- Viewed
- Discussed
- E-mailed
- Star Surveillance: Vince Neil turns 51, Criss Angel, Angel Porrino, ‘Stripped’
- Celebrity preview: JWoww, Sean Kingston, Ice-T and Coco, Nelly
- Chinese company agrees to finance proposed Henderson arena
- Judge sets hearing for teacher in DUI-related accident
- Romney says he prevented Massachusetts from becoming ‘the Las Vegas of gay marriage’
- UNLV basketball anxious to get on the court for big game against San Diego State
- Author relishes writing the life story of ‘larger-than-life’ Oscar Goodman
- Lockdown at Bonanza High School called off after police capture suspect in nearby theft
- South Point owner Michael Gaughan’s take on ‘Vegas Stripped’: ‘I’ll give it an 8’
- See mug shots of 16 arrested in stolen-property police sting
Blogs
The Kats Report
South Point owner Michael Gaughan's take on 'Vegas Stripped': 'I'll give it an 8' (1 Comment)
Author relishes writing the life story of ‘larger-than-life’ Oscar Goodman (2 Comments)
Elsewhere
Landowner: All roads could lead to Uxbridge casino
Revel reveals smoke-free casino opening
Cirque du Soleil show in Sands China casino to close this month
Meet the woman behind Sheldon Adelson
The Kats Report
A sophisticated look at line-moving and dog-show handicapping from Wynn's Johnny Avello
The Sun
Locally owned and independent for more than 50 years.
According to other articles written on this matter, this officer has been on paid administrative leave since July. I would expect (and so should the citizens of this community) he will be required to return all wages received while on "paid administrative leave" should he be found guilty of any or all charges.
Oh come on, he won't have to return that money, the 5 month paid vacation he received for sexually harassing women in the community he was paid to protect. It was his goodbye payoff from the good old boys who run the department. I guess some cops think the law doesn't apply to them.
That is nothing.
There is a guy that got accused of stealing from the state community college system.
He went on a year paid vacation.
He came back and there was him and this other guy doing the same job and each got paid over $100K each.
Also, it was found out that he has spent time in prison for stealing.
About 2 months ago, the state has indicted him for stealing.
Guess what?
He is back on paid vacation again.
It takes a miracle to fire a government worker.
Then you take the Loux matter.
He gave himself an illegal 30% raise.
They found out.
Did they fire him? No
He has resigned but is still working until they find a replacement.
Has the state indicted for that crime? No
Government jobs....you got to love it.
When James Clayton winds up in jail-this cop is gonna wish he never exposed himself to anyone.
Clayton was arrested on a warrant after a five-month criminal investigation conducted by North Las Vegas Police investigators
It takes five months to arrest the guy?
Gotta love the Good Ol Boy network