Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

Police: Suspect in violent attack on housekeeper admits meth, heroin use

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Ivon Major

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Ivon Major was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, burglary with intent to commit sexual assault and open and gross lewdness.

The brutal attack on a Las Vegas housekeeper began immediately after the suspect entered the 10th-floor hotel room, according to Metro Police.

Ivon Major, 22, discovered the woman cleaning the bathroom, punched her in the face, closed the door and continued the onslaught while ordering her to keep quiet, according to his arrest report.

Major was arrested Tuesday, a day after police released surveillance images of him from Saturday's attack. Major's mother called authorities to identify him.

Also according to the arrest report:

Officers were called to University Medical Center regarding a woman who had been battered and sexually assaulted at Boulder Station, on Boulder Highway near Desert Inn Road, on Saturday.

She suffered swelling to her face, a cut on her cheekbone and "appeared to be in pain and appeared very shaken up," a detective wrote in the arrest report.

The victim was almost done cleaning the room.

Another employee working with her had just exited when Major stormed the room, his first punch knocking the victim to the bathroom floor, the report said.

Major closed the hotel and bathroom doors.

The victim told detectives she yelled but that Major only hit her harder: in the face, head and body, before sexually assaulting her, police said.

Another employee calling for the victim from outside the room "spooked" Major and he left the room.

After the room was secured by hotel security, Metro detectives arrived to find a bloody scene. They also discovered a broken silver watch on the bathroom floor. Station Casinos, which owns and operates the resort, could not be reached for comment on Thursday.

On surveillance video, detectives saw Major going in and out of the casino several times while acting suspiciously.

He was then seen going up the elevator, exiting on the 11th floor before going down to the 10th where the attack occurred.

Images of Major on the video matched the victim's description of her attacker and the watch he had worn was no longer on his wrist when he left the hotel, police said.

Major's mother alerted police when she recognized her son from images and a video Metro circulated. His sister also identified Major as the person on the video.

An officer who was canvassing the area, asking if anyone had seen Major, found him and took him into custody after a traffic stop.

Major initially told police that he had entered the room to ask if he could shower and accidentally struck the victim with the door, according to the report.

He then told detectives that he had hit her twice and taken her cellphone, the report said. After further inquiries, he said that he uses heroin and methamphetamine and can't control his actions while on the drugs.

Regarding the sexual contact, which Major first told detectives the victim initiated, "(he) stated he did not know why he did it, but after he had hit her and threatened her to give him her phone ... she would comply with anything he told her to do."

Major was booked at the Clark County Detention Center on one count of battery with intent to commit sexual assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, robbery, burglary and open and gross lewdness, police said.

No bail has been set and Major is scheduled for an arraignment hearing Friday morning, jail logs show.

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