SWAT officers were seen outside the two-story home in the evening as detectives searched the property. Known for his role as the young Sioux tribe member Smiles a Lot in the Oscar-winning Kevin Costner film, Chasing Horse gained a reputation among tribes across the United States and in Canada as a so-called medicine man who performed healing ceremonies and spiritual gatherings and, police allege, used his position to abuse young Native American girls. His arrest is the culmination of a monthslong investigation that began after police received a tip in October According to a page search warrant obtained by AP, Chasing Horse is believed to be the leader of a cult known as The Circle.
And it comes as state attorneys general and lawmakers around the U. According to the document, Las Vegas police have identified at least six alleged victims and uncovered sexual allegations against Chasing Horse dating to the early s in multiple states, including Montana, South Dakota and Nevada, where he has lived for about a decade.
There was no lawyer listed in court records for Chasing Horse who could comment on his behalf as of Tuesday evening. According to the warrant, he was banished in from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, amid allegations of human trafficking. Although the warrant includes details of crimes reported elsewhere, the arrest stems from crimes allegedly committed in Nevada's Clark County.
They include sex trafficking, sexual assault of a child younger than 16 and child abuse. Some of the alleged victims were as young as 13, according to the warrant. Chasing Horse also is accused of recording sexual assaults and arranging sex with the victims for other men who allegedly paid him. It wasn't the March 10 collapse of Silicon Valley Bank that prompted Carissa Rodeheaver, head of a community bank tucked in the mountains of western Maryland, to rethink strategy.
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