Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Police: Man confesses to attempted sexual assault, theft

Joe Lamrenje

Joe Lamrenje

Copper Sands apartments

Metro Police arrested a man they say confessed to attempting to sexually assault a woman with a deadly weapon and committing a rash of burglaries at a southwest valley apartment complex, officials said.

Police identified the suspect as Joe Lamrenje, 30, after an investigation into separate cases of attempted sexual assault and burglary that were reported on Tuesday and Wednesday. When Lamrenje was confronted about the crimes, he apparently told police he had had a fantasy of raping someone.

He admitted to giving in to that impulse, confessing to both attempting to sexually assault a woman and committing multiple burglaries all at the Copper Sands apartment complex, on Flamingo Road near Cimarron Road, officials said.

Officials said a 24-year-old woman contacted police about the incident on Tuesday. She said she had been asleep in her bed around 3:30 a.m. when Lamrenje entered her home and kissed her awake. He held scissors in one hand and a round-shaped object in the other, officials said.

Lamrenje then attempted to have sex with her, but she kicked him off, officials said. Lamrenje responded by beating her repeatedly with the blunt object. He then fled the scene, officials said. The victim suffered a cut above her eye that required six stitches and cuts on her neck and wrist, officials said.

Officials said another woman stepped forward on Wednesday, claiming that a man had broken into her apartment and stole her purse at 5 a.m. Lamrenje was said to have admitted to that crime as well.

Lamrenje was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on Friday, officials said.

He was charged with an attempted sexual assault with a deadly weapon, battery with a deadly weapon, sexually motivated coercion with force and burglary with a deadly weapon, officials said.

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