Man guilty of rape gets two life sentences
Prosecutors said Picozzi sneaked into a room not registered in his name on the 32nd floor of The Cosmopolitan and called the Las Vegas Dream Girls escort agency, summoning a woman to the room.
After the woman arrived, Picozzi negotiated a price of about $8,000 for her daylong company, according to her testimony and phone calls played in court during Picozzi’s trial in April.
Picozzi stopped the woman before she received any cash and told her he was with the police, Rinetti said. Picozzi promised the woman he would not have her arrested if she “did what he wanted,” the prosecutor said.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal typically does not name victims of sexual assault.
As she left the hotel room, the crying woman called the escort agency and said, “He just raped me.”
The woman was stopped by a Neva- da Highway Patrol officer as she left the hotel. She was arrested on a series of warrants and told the officer that she had been sexually assaulted.
Not long after that incident was reported, another woman, who lived at the MGM Signature, contacted police after seeing news coverage of the allegation against Picozzi.
The woman told police Picozzi arranged a date with her on Jan. 18, 2014, at the apartment and then claimed he was a police officer before forcing her to perform oral sex and taking $2,000 from her safe, according to prosecutors.
Picozzi has been convicted of several felonies in New Jersey and Florida, including robbery, kidnapping and impersonating an officer, fleeing from police and grand theft auto, according to court records. Contact David Ferrara at dferrara@reviewjournal.com or 702-380-1039. Follow @randompoker on Twitter.