Las Vegas Sun

April 24, 2024

Metro looks for more victims in casino guard rape case

Laws

METRO POLICE

This undated Clark County jail booking photo shows Robert Ray Laws, a casino security guard in Las Vegas. Police say Laws was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, at the New York-New York, where is accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a stairwell. Laws is due for an Oct. 12 preliminary hearing of evidence in his case.

Authorities in Las Vegas say they're looking for more possible sexual assault victims after a 39-year-old casino security guard was arrested and charged with raping a woman in a Strip resort stairwell.

Officer Jacinto Rivera, a Metro Police spokesman, said Wednesday an investigation is continuing into Robert Ray Laws' activities at the New York-New York resort.

Laws was arrested Sept. 6 in an investigation of a woman's report that she was attacked Sept. 4.

Rivera says police think there may be other victims.

Laws is being held at the Clark County jail on $150,000 bail pending an Oct. 12 preliminary hearing of evidence on sexual assault, kidnapping and burglary charges.

A public defender involved in Laws' case didn't immediately respond Wednesday to email messages.