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Taking a person away without their consent or without the knowledge of their loved ones is a crime called kidnapping. In Las Vegas and other areas in Nevada, it is an extremely serious crime that could land in you prison for a lifetime. If you are accused of Las Vegas kidnapping, understand that there is a big possibility of the consequence happening to you. Still, there are different degrees of kidnapping and is a very complex case that you could always find your way out of.
Kidnapping in the Nevada Revised Statutes
Kidnapping is a broad term but according to Nevada Revised Statutes (NRS) 200.310 it basically is committed when a person “willfully seizes, confines, inveigles, entices, decoys, abducts, conceals, kidnaps or carries away a person by any means whatsoever with the intent to hold or detain.”
Usually, kidnapping is carried out so kidnappers can ask for ransom, perform sexual assault, or just harm or kill the victim. In the final months of last year, there was a prominent kidnapping case in Las Vegas that rocked the city where four teenagers are accused of kidnapping and beating a woman in the Las Vegas Strip.
Punishments for Kidnapping in Las Vegas
As mentioned, Las Vegas kidnapping has different degrees which are the first and second degree. According to NRS 200.320, a person a guilty of first-degree kidnapping should face a category A felony. First degree is the common type of kidnapping when an individual intentionally abducts another and hold them for ransom or other particular reason and caused them injuries or dropped them in an unsafe environment.
A category A felony could either mean life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, life imprisonment with the possibility of parole when at least 15 years have been served or 40 years of imprisonment with parole only available after a minimum of 15 years had passed in the sentence.
When there is no substantial bodily harm or injury found in the kidnapped victim, penalties could be life imprisonment with the possibility of parole within five years or 15 years of imprisonment with the parole possibility after five years was served.
A second degree Las Vegas kidnapping, on the other hand, means less than the factors in the first-degree kidnapping. For example, the victim was not harmed at all and was left in a safe place. This incurs category B felony with penalties of imprisonment for two to 15 years and fines not more than $15,000.
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