Sexual Assault Conviction for Richard Alexander

Submitted by the Office of the Churchill County District Attorney -- Richard Edward Alexander was sentenced after pleaing guilty in the Tenth Judicial District Court for three counts of sexual assault on children aged six months and seven years old. The Court sentenced Alexander to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 105 years. The case arose when an undercover FBI agent alerted the Fallon Police Department to Alexander and his plans to sexually assault a seven year old child. The Fallon Police Department, with the aid of the FBI, and the Northern Nevada Cyber Center quickly obtained and executed a search warrant on the residence. Later, forensic analysis by the Northern Nevada Cyber Center of evidence seized at the residence and other locations, lead to evidence that Alexander had committed sexual assaults on the seven year old child and a six month old child. The case was prosecuted by Chief Deputy Distict Attorney Lane Mills.