LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A longtime legal professional who police mentioned referred to himself as a “gorilla pimp,” agreed to a plea deal, information mentioned.
Gary Guymon, 62, appeared in courtroom Thursday for what started as a intercourse trafficking case with an alleged murder-for-hire plot. Guymon entered no contest pleas to felony costs, together with bribing or intimidating a witness to affect testimony and coercion. Guymon additionally agreed to everlasting disbarment, based on prosecutors.
Clark County District Courtroom Decide Christy Craig scheduled Guymon’s sentencing for July 31.
Guymon initially confronted intercourse trafficking, conspiracy to commit homicide, solicitation to commit homicide, pandering, and bribing or intimidating a witness to affect testimony.
Las Vegas Metro police mentioned Guymon pressured girls he represented to carry out sexual acts on himself and his pals — and in a single case, orchestrated a murder-for-hire plot.
Police arrested Guymon on Feb. 3
Guymon referred to his prostitution ring because the “$100 club,” based on an arrest report the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained.
“Call me your mother******* pimp,” Guymon texted one girl, based on the report. “Offer any resistance, and I just might smash your [expletive] teeth out of your mouth.”
Police started their investigation in November and recognized 4 victims from August 2024 via the top of January, they mentioned. Two of the alleged victims have been concerned in prostitution circumstances.
Police listened to Guymon’s communications, obtained textual content messages, performed a number of interviews and surveilled Guymon for the investigation.
Guymon referred to himself as a “Demon of validation,” based on police. Guymon pressured one girl to make use of a intercourse toy and threatened her with incarceration if she didn’t comply with his orders, police mentioned.
Guymon bought a Vary Rover and leased an condominium for an additional girl who mentioned the connection moved from legal professional/consumer to romantic, the report acknowledged. Guymon is married.
When the connection took a flip, Guymon despatched quite a few threatening textual content messages, police mentioned.
“I just became your mother******* gorilla pimp!!!!” Guymon texted, based on the report. “Effective immediately: you will do what I tell you to do. You will date who I tell you to date. You will not break stride. You will march forward.”
The arrest report famous that “Gorilla pimp,” refers to a pimp who is understood to be bodily violent in direction of his prostitutes.
“You will suck my **** when I tell you to. You will wear what I tell you to wear. You will speak when I tell you to speak. And you will be better off and so will your daughter,” Guymon texted, based on the report.
When the girl tried to get a restraining order in opposition to him, Guymon repeatedly threatened her, police mentioned.
In change for withholding testimony in opposition to Guymon and withholding complaints to the Nevada State Bar, Guymon and his pal provided the girl $1,000 monthly, the report acknowledged. When the girl didn’t obey, Guymon reached out to a convicted felon who linked him with one other convicted felon who had a earlier arrest for homicide to debate killing the girl in change for cash, based on the arrest report.
Police uncovered textual content messages between Guymon and his pals, together with at the least one married Las Vegas legal professional, the place Guymon seems to arrange conferences the place he would drive the ladies to have intercourse together with his pals, the report described.
In an interview with police, “Guymon denied introducing clients of his to associates of his for sexual acts,” paperwork mentioned. “He stated multiple times he was just attempting to help the females out and would occasionally receive lap dances from them.”
As a part of their investigation, police surveilled and tracked Guymon for a number of weeks
Guymon beforehand labored within the Clark County District Legal professional’s Workplace.
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