Warrant: Man accused in 2 sexual assaults worked as Las Vegas promoter

A antheral charged successful 2 intersexual assaults dating backmost much than six years had antecedently worked arsenic a promoter connected the Las Vegas Strip, according to an apprehension warrant released Wednesday.

Zeng Fu Lin, 40, who besides went by the sanction Jay Lin, was arrested Nov. 27 soon aft his formation from Singapore landed successful New York City. He was extradited and booked astatine the Clark County Detention Center past week.

The acold cases were from 2015 and 2017, according to the warrant, which lone elaborate a September 2017 attack.

In that case, authorities said, a pistillate traveled to Las Vegas for her friend’s bachelorette enactment astatine Marquee Las Vegas astatine the Cosmopolitan hotel, wherever they met Lin.

She told investigators that Lin, who worked astatine the nine arsenic a promoter, had poured her a drink, and she aboriginal felt “groggy” and “drowsy.”

The pistillate past blacked retired and woke up successful a edifice country with Lin, who asked her if she was connected commencement control. The pistillate told constabulary she was precise confused and unsure what edifice country she was in. She aboriginal returned to her friend’s hotel.

She drove backmost to her location successful Los Angeles and aboriginal reported the incidental to constabulary there, who yet contacted the Metropolitan Police Department.

But the lawsuit went acold aft Las Vegas investigators could not scope the woman, according to the warrant. A twelvemonth and a fractional later, investigators matched forensic grounds from the incidental with grounds from different intersexual battle investigation, which had taken spot successful 2015 and had progressive a pistillate who met the fishy astatine the Marquee nightclub.

Police contacted some women and identified Lin arsenic the suspect, according to the warrant. He had been surviving successful Singapore earlier traveling backmost to the U.S.

On Nov. 27, the Department of Homeland Security contacted Las Vegas police, telling investigators that Lin was flying successful from Singapore.

He was arrested astatine the airdrome the adjacent day, constabulary said.

Lin did not cognize astir the pending transgression lawsuit until helium landed successful the U.S., his lawyer Nicholas Wooldridge said past week.

“I look guardant to him getting vindicated from these allegations,” Wooldridge said.

A preliminary proceeding was acceptable for Dec. 30, according to jailhouse records.

Cosmopolitan officials did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Contact Jonah Dylan astatine jdylan@reviewjournal.com. Follow @TheJonahDylan connected Twitter.