Former “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse was charged with federal crimes in a Nevada court docket on Wednesday, including to the rising checklist of legal circumstances towards the alleged cult chief since his arrest close to his Las Vegas residence final week.
Chasing Horse, 46, is now dealing with two counts of sexual exploitation of kids and one rely of possession of kid pornography, in accordance with a legal grievance filed in Nevada U.S. District Court obtained by the Related Press.
Authorities stated the previous actor filmed sexual assaults of kids.
The federal fees got here hours after a state choose granted $300,000 bail to Chasing Horse on Wednesday. He had been in Las Vegas police custody since his Jan. 31 arrest.
Nathan Chasing Horse seated in a courtroom, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photograph/Ty O’Neil)
Earlier on Wednesday, round two dozen of his kin and associates piled into the North Las Vegas courtroom to point out their assist, the AP reported.
Waving indicators that translated to “Justice for Chasing Horse,” they cheered and celebrated the choose’s choice to grant him bail. Although if he posts bail, he’s more likely to be taken into federal custody.
In state court docket, Chasing Horse is charged with eight felonies, together with sexual assault, sex trafficking and youngster abuse. He has not but entered a plea, and it is unknown if he’ll.
Authorities have stated his crimes date again to the early 2000s and stretch throughout the nation and into Canada.
This week, Canadian police in British Columbia confirmed they are going to be pursuing a case towards him for an alleged sexual assault within the British Columbia village of Keremeos close to the Washington state border in 2018.
North Las Vegas magistrate Craig Newman presides throughout a bail listening to of former actor Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, often known as Nathan Chasing Horse, at North Las Vegas Justice Courtroom, on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Overview-Journal by way of AP)
At his bail listening to Wednesday morning, the AP reported that Clark County Chief Deputy District Lawyer William Rowles instructed the choose Chasing Horse ought to stay in custody as a result of there’s “evidence” he’s “grooming” ladies to exchange his older wives.
The previous actor, who is thought for his portrayal of Smiles A Lot in Kevin Costner’s 1990 Oscar-winning film, was reportedly residing with 5 wives when he was arrested.
Chasing Horse has been described in court docket paperwork because the chief of a cult often known as The Circle, which had about 300 members at its peak, in accordance with Rowles. His followers believed he was a “medicine man” who might talk with greater beings.
Police stated he used his place to bodily and sexually assault girls and ladies, and to take underage wives.
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Former actor Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, proper, often known as Nathan Chasing Horse, seems in North Las Vegas Justice Courtroom Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye /Las Vegas Overview-Journal by way of AP)
Investigators and victims have been anticipated to talk in court docket on Wednesday, however delays within the proceedings resulted within the choose solely listening to from Rowles and Chasing Horse’s public defender, Kristy Holston.
Rowles requested $2 million bail whereas Holston requested for bail to be set at $50,000.
After the listening to, Holston instructed the AP she was proud of the choose’s choice and stated she is trying ahead to his subsequent court docket date on Feb. 22 in North Las Vegas. At that listening to, a choose is anticipated to listen to proof within the case and determine whether or not Chasing Horse will stand trial.
“We’re really looking forward to the preliminary hearing in this case,” she stated, “because it’s another public hearing where we will have an opportunity to point out the weaknesses in the state’s case.”
A lady supporter of Nathan Chasing Horse sits in court docket, Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in North Las Vegas, Nev. (AP Photograph/Ty O’Neil)
Rulon Pete, a consultant of the victims and the chief director of the Las Vegas Indian Heart, had the alternative response and stated the choose’s choice was “like a slap in the face.”
A few of the victims have been within the courtroom on Wednesday seated with their supporters, which included Chasing Horse’s estranged daughter, Quannah. Some have been holding indicators studying “NO MORE STOLEN SISTERS” and “WOMEN AREN’T PRISONERS.”
Police have stated they’ve recognized at least six victims, together with one who was 13 when she stated she was abused, and one other who stated she was supplied to Chasing Horse as a “gift” when she was 15.
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It wasn’t instantly clear how, if in any respect, the federal fees will have an effect on Chasing Horse’s case in Clark County.
Chasing Horse was born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, dwelling to the Sicangu Sioux, one of many seven tribes of the Lakota nation. In 2015, he was banished from the Fort Peck Reservation in Poplar, Montana, following allegations of human trafficking.
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