A Las Vegas
man convicted on numerous charges relating to the operation of a prostitution
ring was sentenced to thirteen life prison terms Tuesday last week in Clark
County District Court.
Raymond
Christopher Sharp, 48, was sentenced by Clark County District Judge Elissa
Cadish to
13 life terms, 10 of which would run
concurrently.
He will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole on the charge of
kidnap with the use of a deadly weapon. He received twelve more sentences of
life in prison with the possibility of parole for his conviction on 18 other
charges, most of them felonies.
Sharp, a
registered sex offender, was arrested last July 2 of last year after police
responded to reports of an almost naked hysterical woman knocking on doors in a
northwest valley neighborhood asking for assistance. Witnesses said they saw a
black adult man, later identified as Sharp, drag the woman by the hair back
into a residence. When responding
patrol units realized the disturbance involved prostitution-related activities,
LVMPD Vice detectives were summoned to the scene. Armed with a search warrant
on Sharp’s residence, police said they found evidence of prostitution-related
activities.
The
investigation further revealed that the victim in this particular crime was
just one of numerous prostitutes being pandered by Sharp. It was also
discovered that Sharp, a convicted person prohibited from legally possessing
firearms, had numerous weapons including assault rifles, some of which were
loaded at the time of his arrest.
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