{"id":158921,"date":"2020-12-17T15:31:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T23:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=158921"},"modified":"2020-12-17T15:51:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T23:51:26","slug":"suspected-sex-trafficker-busted-on-las-vegas-strip-after-woman-steals-3000-from-vice-cop-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/suspected-sex-trafficker-busted-on-las-vegas-strip-after-woman-steals-3000-from-vice-cop-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected Sex Trafficker Busted On Las Vegas Strip After Woman Steals $3k From Vice Cop"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 36-year-old man was booked into jail in Las Vegas over the weekend in an undercover sex trafficking sting on the Strip.<\/p>\n

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The Las Vegas Strip is seen in this nighttime photograph. The Strip was the site this weekend of a sex-trafficking arrest. (Image: Mark Damon\/Las Vegas News Bureau)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The arrest happened after a woman attempted to steal $3,000 from a Las Vegas undercover vice officer posing as a customer, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Brent Keith Rodgers was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Sunday. He is due in court Dec. 30 on charges of facilitating sex trafficking of a victim over 18, conspiracy to commit theft and more, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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Rodgers was arrested after a woman agreed late Saturday to have sex for $500 with the undercover officer pretending to be a customer, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The woman went to the officer’s hotel room on the Strip. The officer placed cash in a dresser drawer and left the room momentarily. Surveillance video shows the woman taking the money while on a phone call. After she left the room, police waiting outside arrested her. The money was recovered from her purse, the Review-Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n

Police located Rodgers in the hotel by examining the woman\u2019s phone. The suspect said the woman was a model who had gone to the room to pose for photos. He denied being her pimp, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

The woman also was arrested. Her name was redacted in the police report.<\/p>\n

Sex Crimes<\/h2>\n

The incident Sunday was the latest in recent sex crime arrests in the Las Vegas area.<\/p>\n

Christopher Mark Damron, 46, of Oxnard, California, was booked into jail last week, facing charges of soliciting a child for prostitution and luring a child for sexual acts, according to news reports.<\/p>\n

The man replied to an online prostitution ad, saying he was grumpy because he had lost money, so was \u201ctrying to get happy,\u201d according to the Review-Journal<\/i>. He agreed to pay $200 for sex, police said.<\/p>\n

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Damron\u2019s reply to the ad went to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer posing as a 15-year-old girl, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Damron went the next day to an agreed-upon location, where he was arrested. He told officers he was not planning on having sex with the 15-year-old girl. He said he only wanted to take her ice skating<\/a> at a rink at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas on the Strip, according to the Review-Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Damron\u2019s arrest was one of 11 in a law enforcement crackdown on internet crimes against children in the area. Police also arrested an elementary school assistant principal.<\/p>\n

Off-Strip Arrest<\/h2>\n

In November, police arrested 49-year-old Trevor Carter at an off-Strip hotel-casino on suspicion of sex-trafficking a juvenile under the age of 18, according to news reports.
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The man told the juvenile female to charge $500 for each sexual encounter. She also was told to look for men wearing \u201ccowboy buckles and boots\u201d<\/a> as potential good customers, according to published accounts.<\/p>\n

The juvenile was told to make her customers drink a shot of liquor to be sure the person was not an undercover officer, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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