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Metro Police released two composite sketches of one man sought in connection with four sex assaults and attempted assaults. Police are looking for one man, but released two sketches created after separate assaults.
By Jackie Valley (contact) 
Published Thursday, July 1, 2010 | 10:58 a.m.
Updated Thursday, July 1, 2010 | 12:30 p.m.
Metro Police are looking for a red or maroon vehicle suspected of being used in four sexual assaults along Flamingo Road.
Metro Police are looking for a red or maroon vehicle suspected of being used in four sexual assaults along Flamingo Road.
Metro Police are looking for a man suspected of sexually assaulting four women. In two cases, police say he forced women into his car.
Police said the first incident occurred May 9 and the last of the four occurred June 19. Three incidents occurred between 4:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., while one occurred in the evening.
Police said the man approached the women in the area of Flamingo Road between Arville Street and Valley View Boulevard, and also in the area of Arville Street and Spring Mountain Road.
Authorities said during a morning news conference that the man approached the women as they were walking or waiting at a bus stop, seeming polite each time. He was able to convince two of the women to get into his car, while in two other cases police say he forced the women into his car.
He then drove the women to different areas in western and northern parts of the valley and sexually assaulted them, police said. Investigators said one women was raped.
The man was described as Hispanic, between 20 and 30 years old, standing between 5-foot-7 and 5-foot-10-inches tall and weighing between 170 and 200 pounds. He was driving a small red or maroon car, police said.
In all four incidents the victims were white women between 18 and 30 years old.
Police released two composite sketches of the suspect, saying the descriptions of the man provided by two victims were "very similar in nature." Police said the man hasn't displayed a weapon in any case.
"We do not have a huge number of stranger sexual assaults in this community, so it is relatively uncommon in this case to have somebody who doesn't know the victims," said Metro Lt. Rob Lundquist.
Police are also urging other possible victims to come forward — the sooner, the better for statements and physical evidence, authorities said.
"What would help us is this: if these victims understand this is not your fault," Lundquist said. "It's not your fault this happened to you, and it may be embarrassing, but as a law enforcement entity, our job is, number one, to make sure you are safe, and number two, to move forward with the prosecution."
Police said they are boosting patrols in the area. They're also asking citizens to use common-sense safety practices, such as traveling in numbers and avoiding strangers.
"If you're waiting at the bus stop or walking down the street, be aware of who is around you and have a safety plan in mind," Lundquist said. "If you know that you're going to be in a certain area and that's a normal course you travel each day, know where you're going to go if someone approaches you."
Police said the suspect likely will face a variety of charges including sexual assault, attempted sexual assault and kidnapping.
Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incidents or other possible victims to call police, or Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555.
I hope everyone who reads this takes the time to warn a young woman they know who takes the bus about this man.
Ladies your "Concealed Carry Handgun" will put a stop to this crap. Then you can tell "METRO" What happened when they get there 10 minutes later.
Who did those sketches, Pablo Picasso?
I saw this guy in Ciudad Juarez, I suggest the brave men of Metro spend a nice couple of evenings down there looking for this gentleman.
"He was able to convince two of the women to get into his car"
You have got to be kidding! What were they thinking???
Just One State -
This is only one State.................If this doesn't open eyes, nothing will!
From the L A. Times
1 40% of all workers in L. A. County ( L. A. County has 10.2 million people) are working for cash and not paying taxes.
This is because they are predominantly illegal immigrants working without a green card.
2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal aliens.
4. Over 2/3 of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien Mexicans on Medi-Cal, whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
5. Nearly 35% of all inmates in California detention centers are Mexican nationals here illegally.
6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in garages.
7... The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
8 Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
9. 21 radio stations in L. A. are Spanish speaking.
10. In L.. A. County 5.1 million people speak English, 3.9 million speak Spanish.. (There are 10.2 million people in L. A. County .)
(All 10 of the above facts were published in the Los Angeles Times)
Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops, but 29% are on welfare. Over 70% of the United States ' annual population growth (and over 90% of California, Florida, and New York) results from immigration. 29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
We are fools for letting this continue
This is only one State...............
Too bad this guys description was not released soon after the first incident on May 9th, it may have helped prevent the others from occurring.
Try again, peaches. That particular (and mostly inaccurate) chain email has been going around for 4 years now.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati...
Peaches, I got that chain e-mail too, and it's not entirely accurate:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/immigrati...
If you, or anyone else would like to educate themselves as to the true cost of illegal immigration, economy and jobs-wise, go here:
http://washingtonindependent.com/55152/c...
"A new study from the libertarian CATO Institute concludes that legalizing the more than eight million undocumented workers in the United States would have significant economic benefits for the country, while simply enhancing border enforcement and applying restrictive immigration laws would actually hurt the U.S. economically"
...and here:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/05/does-im...
"Immigrant workers "create almost as many" jobs as they occupy, "and maybe more," said Madeleine Sumption, policy analyst at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, which is funded by a range of foundations, corporations and international organizations. "They often create the jobs they work in." In addition, "they buy things, and they make the economy bigger," she told us. As she and a co-author wrote in a report last year for a group created by the British government:
[T]he impact of immigration [on a nation's economy] remains small, for several reasons. Immigrants are not competitive in many types of jobs, and hence are not direct substitutes for natives. Local employers increase demand for low-skilled labor in areas that receive low-skilled immigrant inflows. Immigrants contribute to demand for goods and services that they consume, in turn increasing the demand for labor. And immigrants contribute to labor market efficiency and long-term economic growth."
bgrebs:
JINX!
Let's see...first incident, May 9th.
Last incident June 19th.
Today is July 1st.
Metro FINALLY releases a suspect description, nearly 2 months after the first occurrence, with a 5 week period between the first and last occurrence.
Is it possible most, if not all, occurrences after June 9th might have been prohibited by a timely release of information to the public??? Especially since ""We do not have a huge number of stranger sexual assaults in this community,..."
Metro needs a new Chief and an Academy in the worst way....
p.s. on a positive note, not too many residents of Vegas fit the suspect description...
The sketch on the right the perp has no nostrils, shouldn't be too difficult to track down.
Ah, I see @peaches just continues to post false data.
On the other hand, ladies what are you thinking? No one should get in the car of a complete stranger EVER. If someone approaches you like that just pull out your cell and dial 9 1 1. And get a license plate while you're at it.
I think that's Kobe Bryant..
@summerof69:
You got to be kidding, summer, I thought he looks more like a shaved Chuck Norris ...I mean, my 5-year-old daughter could draw a better picture of someone approaching her on the street.
What we need is more common-sense and encouraged people to help other folks in case of emergency.
Could not a female cop wait there at the bus stop undercover just to cut this a%%hole's balls when he tries to assault a women next time, no, wait, could not some martial arts specialist (e.g. like Jackie Chan) dress like a woman and wait for the scumbag to show up at the bus stop to teach some self-defence?
Check out that movie:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388500
Regards
Banana_Joe
Hey, I just saw this guy on street in front of Star Nursery.