Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)

Man accused of assaulting online date

- By Katelyn Newberg

A 35-year-old man is under arrest after he was accused of raping a woman he met on Snapchat in January, according to an arrest report.

On Jan. 6, a woman called police to report that a man she had met online assaulted her at his apartment the day before. She said she went to Dwayne Walters’ apartment in the Las Vegas Valley to buy Xanax when he sexually assaulted her and punched her in the face, the report said.

The woman told police that when she first arrived, they “talked about her exotic dancing” and shared a drink as Walters offered to get her a job at a strip club if she sent him pictures of herself.

But at one point, he “picked up (the woman) dragged her into the bedroom next to the bathroom, and pushed her on the bed,” the Metropolit­an Police Department report said.

The woman told police Walters then raped her, and when she tried to push him off, he punched her in the nose, causing it to “bleed down her face.”

Walters, who also goes by the alias “Kevin Carter,” wouldn’t let her leave the apartment until she “cleaned herself off,” the report said.

Detectives determined that a sexual assault report was filed in May with Metro in which a woman told police that Walters had raped her inside his apartment, but she did not want to press charges.

“The allegation­s of that report stated Kevin could help the victim get into the music industry,” the report said.

Walters was arrested Feb. 21 and booked into the Clark County Detention Center, where he remained last week with bail set at $75,000. He faces felony charges of sexual assault, battery with intent to commit sexual assault on a victim 16 or older and coercion with force or threat of force.

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