A pistillate who authorities accidental joined much than a twelve men successful Las Vegas to money her gambling has agreed to plead blameworthy to 2 felonies.
Jiaying Chen, 33, waived her close to a preliminary proceeding during an quality earlier Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Rebecca Saxe connected Tuesday.
Chen’s attorney, Thomas Wells, said she plans to plead blameworthy aboriginal this week to 1 number each of bigamy and obtaining wealth nether mendacious pretenses much than $100,000.
“It volition licence the victims of these crimes to supply restitution reports to the tribunal and, ideally, get reimbursed from this suspect for the wealth she has taken,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Austin Beaumont said of the plea deal.
Chen was archetypal arrested by the Metropolitan Police Department successful 2024 connected aggregate counts of bigamy and theft. An apprehension study indicates that from March 2019 to May 2024, Chen submitted 14 matrimony applications to the Clark County Marriage License Bureau, resulting successful 7 matrimony certificates being issued. She was released aft posting enslaved successful 2024, past disappeared.
She was arrested again successful Las Vegas past month. Police said she was utilizing the alias Vicky Liang and had submitted 8 marriage license applications, resulting successful 7 matrimony certificates issued successful Clark County.
She was recovered successful possession of a fraudulent passport and fraudulent Nevada driver’s licence astatine the clip of her astir caller arrest, according to police.
Police said Chen was capable to get joined aggregate times by utilizing an alias, fraudulent identifications and repeatedly lying connected applications. The Clark County Marriage License Bureau archetypal reported her to constabulary successful 2024.
Chen, constabulary said, would conscionable men connected societal media apps and soon suggest they get married. She would yet inquire for money, often to assistance a purported sick household subordinate successful China successful a strategy that constabulary said exploited Chinese taste traditions.
“Once Chen received the wealth she would interruption each communications with them,” constabulary said. “Once each connection with Chen stopped immoderate of the males filed for an annulment with the courts but immoderate besides advised they are inactive joined to Chen.”
In the 2024 case, Chen was besides accused of swindling a pistillate retired of $40,000 by penning atrocious checks from a erstwhile husband’s slope account.
One antheral told constabulary helium gave Chen $40,000 to assistance a sick household subordinate successful China and was ne'er repaid. Another said that instantly aft helium joined Chen, she asked for $23,000 to assistance a sick household member. Two weeks aft giving her the money, constabulary said, Chen told him “she didn’t privation to beryllium joined anymore to him.”
Another antheral told a akin communicative of losing $20,000. Yet different said helium dated Chen for a twelvemonth earlier marrying her, constabulary said. She suggested redeeming for a house, truthful helium and his household collected astir $30,000, which helium gave to Chen.
“Once helium gave the wealth to Chen, she stopped talking to him and helium couldn’t find her,” constabulary said.
When Chen was arrested successful 2024 she was asked by detectives wherefore she doesn’t ever wed the men that she’d submitted matrimony applications for.
“She stated not everyone pays which is wherefore they don’t get the matrimony certificate,” Chen was quoted arsenic saying.
Chen told constabulary she “could marque arsenic overmuch arsenic $20,000 from 1 marriage” and that she “only conducts the fake marriages successful Las Vegas due to the fact that it is truthful casual to get married.”
Police besides examined Chen’s gambling expenditures.
“It has been determined Chen has mislaid implicit $300,000 astatine the Wynn casino successful the past twelvemonth and (it) appears the wealth she has obtained goes to gambling and not relatives overseas,” constabulary said.
Contact Glenn Puit astatine gpuit@reviewjournal.com.
English (US)·