Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016 | 5:38 p.m.
A North Las Vegas man arrested on suspicion of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl last year faces counts related to three more alleged underage victims.
Jimmy Carter Kim, 26, was arrested Dec. 3 on suspicion of 20 counts of kidnapping and sexual assault, North Las Vegas police have said. He now faces 83 counts including use of a minor in producing pornography and attempted sexual assault, according to an amended criminal complaint filed Thursday.
Information about how police identified the other alleged victims was not available Tuesday.
The 14-year-old girl told investigators Kim took her from Bullhead City, Ariz., after offering her a ride and marijuana Nov. 3, according to Kim’s arrest report.
Also according to the report:
The girl told police she’d awakened in Kim’s van in Las Vegas after she had smoked something out of a pipe Kim had provided and had fallen asleep.
After arriving at a house in the 1100 bock of Dawn Valley Drive, near Camino Al Norte and Washburn Road, Kim showed the girl a gun and told her she was under video surveillance.
When Kim left the house, he would lock the girl in his bedroom, give her a bucket so she could use the bathroom and leave music playing.
While he was at the home, which he shared with his 75-year-old father, Dennis, the younger Kim would sexually and physically assault the girl. He took photos and once tied her up.
The girl told detectives Kim became more aggressive with time and she was “scared to fight him off.”
While Kim was out Dec. 3, the girl used scissors to open the room, called family and friends from a phone she found in the house, and ran to a grocery store about a half-mile away, where police were called.
The girl, who Arizona police said had run away from home but wasn’t a habitual runaway, was hospitalized before being returned to her family.
Kim told police he met the girl in Las Vegas about a week and a half before his arrest and that he had taken her in because she didn’t have a place to stay.
He admitted to locking her in his room so she wouldn’t “steal” from the house, but he denied having contact with her or recently traveling to Arizona.
Dennis Kim told reporters he had seen a person’s feet through a crack in his son’s room the day before the arrest. He confronted his son, who apologized and said it was his “girlfriend.”
Dennis Kim said his son would bring over “girlfriends” and that he had seen at least two in the month in which police believe the girl was kidnapped.
Neither of those other girls looked 14 or appeared to be at the house against her will, Dennis Kim said.
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