{"id":129098,"date":"2020-03-05T16:20:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=129098"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:24:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:24:58","slug":"excalibur-employee-charged-with-arson-sought-compensation-from-mgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/excalibur-employee-charged-with-arson-sought-compensation-from-mgm\/","title":{"rendered":"Excalibur Employee Who Confessed to Hotel Arson, False Rape Claim Wanted Compensation from MGM"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Excalibur employee who has admitted to setting fire to a hotel room at the Las Vegas Strip casino before falsely claiming she had been raped Googled, \u201cCan you sue hotel job for sexual assault” prior to the incident.<\/p>\n

\"Excalibur
Aviaon Lee has made 12 worker\u2019s compensation claims against employer MGM Resorts since 2013, all but one of which were successful. (Image: YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to her arrest report, Aviaon Lee, 28, also searched for \u201cHow much can you sue a company for injury,” “How can you tell if someone been raped (sic)” and \u201cWorkplace rape definition\u201d in the weeks leading up to the alleged stunt.<\/p>\n

Police responded to reports of a small fire at the Excalibur on February 5, shortly after 11:30 a.m. At a press conference later that day, officers told media that a search was underway for a suspect in a sexual assault case who they believed at the time had set the fire.<\/p>\n

But the purported victim, Lee, was arrested February 19 on charges, including arson, burglary with a deadly weapon, destroying property, and false reporting of a crime.<\/p>\n

Although no one was injured in the blaze, Excalibur owner MGM Resorts<\/a> estimated the damage to be $594,646.<\/p>\n

Scene ‘Looked Staged’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lee had been found in a hallway tied up with duct tape, curled up in the fetal position. The tape had been completely wrapped around her head.<\/p>\n

She told the security guard who cut the tape she had been raped.<\/p>\n

In a subsequent police interview, Lee explained she had been cleaning a hotel room when she was attacked by a white man in a ski mask, who restrained her, forced her onto a bed, and raped her.<\/p>\n

He later moved her to another bed in the room while he set the first bed on fire to destroy evidence, which included a condom and the roll of duct tape, she claimed.<\/p>\n

But investigators became suspicious because they thought the scene looked staged and because they could not locate a possible suspect after reviewing the casino\u2019s security footage, according to the report.<\/p>\n

Story Unravels<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Lee voluntarily surrendered her phone to police, which led to the discovery of 25 suspicious internet searches pertaining to workers\u2019 compensation, sexual assault claims, and arson.<\/p>\n

When confronted, Lee told detectives the searches were related to her mother-in-law, who she claimed had been sexually assaulted while working as a housekeeper many years ago.<\/p>\n

Police executed a search warrant on Lee\u2019s apartment, where they found a compensation claim form. They also discovered she had made 12 workers’ compensation claims against MGM Resorts since 2013. All but one had paid out.<\/p>\n

Under questioning, Lee confessed to police that she had concocted the rape story and set the fire herself.<\/p>\n

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If convicted of the charge of burglary with a deadly weapon, Lee faces up to 15 years in prison.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In 1981, a busboy at the Las Vegas Hilton, now the Westgate<\/a>, set fire to a curtain in the elevator lobby on the eighth floor of the east tower while under the influence of drugs.<\/p>\n

Eight people died and 350 were injured in the ensuing blaze.<\/p>\n

The busboy, Philip Bruce Cline, was convicted of arson and murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n

The Hilton fire helped trigger an international overhaul of building codes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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