Las Vegas Sun

April 20, 2024

Sexual assault suspect arrested in California

FBI agents arrested sexual assault suspect Roy Trost in Venice Beach, Calif., today.

Trost, 19, was arrested on 13 charges including sexual assault with a weapon, first degree kidnapping, robbery with a deadly weapon, sexual assault with a victim under 16 and burglary with a deadly weapon, Metro Police said.

Trost is alleged to have assaulted two women, one of them a teenager, about midnight Sunday in the parking lot of Desert Springs Hospital, police said.

Detectives with Metro's Criminal Apprehension Team learned that Trost had left Southern Nevada and gone to Venice Beach. They contacted the FBI, whose agents arrested him earlier today.

The investigation into the case continues, police said.

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