A Las Vegas Valley tattoo creator has been charged with sexually assaulting 2 teen girls helium gave tattoos to successful Las Vegas, according to constabulary records.
Souriyadeth Markthepharack, 55, is charged with 3 counts of first-degree kidnapping, 5 counts of enactment battle and 1 number of lewdness with a kid 14 oregon 15. He was being held without bail Tuesday astatine the Clark County Detention Center.
The Metropolitan Police Department said successful an apprehension study for Markthepharack that detectives archetypal started investigating aft a patrol serviceman was flagged down by a pistillate connected June 7 connected Maryland Parkway successful the eastbound Las Vegas Valley. The pistillate told constabulary she wanted to study a enactment battle of 2 teen girls.
Police past tracked down the girls and learned they went to a residence successful the Las Vegas Valley to get tattoos from a antheral a fewer weeks earlier. The teens told constabulary the antheral gave them intoxicant and soda. After drinking the beverages, the girls became sick and passed out. Both said they awoke aboriginal to a antheral sexually assaulting them.
Detectives interviewed aggregate people, prompting them to place Markthepharack arsenic a suspect, constabulary said. When they archetypal contacted Markthepharack by telephone helium declined to beryllium interviewed, saying “Why would I bash that? I don’t privation to get deported.”
Police aboriginal arrested him, and helium agreed to an interrogation successful which helium said helium is simply a autochthonal of Laos, that helium is moving connected his ineligible presumption successful the United States and that his sister had precocious been deported. He past acknowledged having intersexual interaction with some girls but said helium did not cognize they were underage. He besides told constabulary the girls gave him the content they wanted to person enactment and they ne'er said no, constabulary said.
“Souriyadeth wrote a missive of apology to the girls wherever helium stated helium did not cognize they were underage, that helium was atrocious and asked for forgiveness,” constabulary said successful the report.
Markthepharack was arrested connected Aug. 27. He is scheduled for a preliminary proceeding successful Las Vegas Justice Court connected Sept. 15.
Contact Glenn Puit astatine gpuit@reviewjournal.com.
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