Man faces charges in sex abuse, filming of boy on phone - Las Vegas Review-Journal

A 53-year-old convicted enactment offender accused of making videos of young boys successful a nationalist restroom successful California has been arrested successful Las Vegas.

Kent Douglas Preston, 53, was arrested connected Dec. 29 successful Las Vegas connected suspicion of sexually assaulting a kid nether 14, lewdness with a kid nether 14, archetypal grade kidnapping, kid maltreatment and utilizing a insignificant nether 14 to nutrient pornography, the Metropolitan Police Department reported.

Preston is being held astatine the Clark County Detention Center connected $500,000 bail, according to jailhouse records.

His troubles began successful California connected Aug. 11, erstwhile the Newport Beach Police Department took a telephone astir an incidental wrong a nationalist bath by a formation astatine the city’s Corona Del Mar neighborhood, Las Vegas constabulary said successful an apprehension report.

The caller reported that a antheral aboriginal identified astatine Preston was utilizing a cellphone to grounds young boys successful the restroom. Preston was aboriginal arrested and booked successful Newport Beach, and constabulary obtained a hunt warrant to analyse his Galaxy Samsung mobile device.

Then connected Dec. 29, a Newport Beach constabulary detective phoned a Las Vegas detective with the department’s enactment offender portion to study uncovering respective videos and photographs connected Preston’s Samsung showing what looked similar a a pre-teen male, constabulary said.

Some of the images could beryllium considered pornographic, depicting intersexual abuse, portion others wherever not, but the Newport Beach detective was capable to perceive the juvenile’s sanction mentioned connected the audio, according to police.

Las Vegas detectives researched the boy’s name, identified him done a photograph provided by Clark County School Police and aboriginal discovered his ineligible guardian and mother.

After reviewing the metadata of the videos, detectives learned that the recordings had been made successful April 2022 successful Las Vegas.

Authorities said the videos showed Preston holding down the lad arsenic the kid attempted to resist, constabulary said. Preston, successful 1 lawsuit wrestled the lad to his back, forced his knees to his chest, pulled his pants down, digitally penetrated him and prevented him from escaping, they said.

In different country connected a video successful Preston’s phone, the fishy rubbed the boy’s buttocks and successful yet different part, digitally penetrated the lad again, constabulary said.

Las Vegas constabulary said they decided they had probable origin to apprehension Preston, since helium was backmost successful municipality and mightiness resume abusing the victim. Detectives surveyed his location and yet arrested him erstwhile helium returned determination successful a Jeep Grand Cherokee vehicle.

A detective interviewed the alleged juvenile unfortunate connected Dec. 29, who positively identified Preston from snips of video from the suspect’s mobile phone, constabulary said.

Later that day, constabulary besides interviewed Preston and afterward arrested him and booked him into the detention center.

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