Decades back in 1982, Pitzen was found guilty on four counts of second-degree sexual assault. He allegedly broke into the bedrooms of multiple female strangers while they were asleep. The list of victims included a teenager and three women.
Previously, he was convicted of sex registry violations between the years of 2004 and 2016. In 2015, he had escaped from a Wautoma transitional facility, and was arrested in Mesquite, Nevada. That escape had led him to be thrown behind the bars for a year. He was also convicted of disorderly conduct, battery, burglary, and drug offenses.
In a separate incident, Frank Anthony Ruggirello, a 43-year-old resident of Clinton, Mich., was taken into custody for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at the MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The victim staying at MGM told a lifeguard at the swimming pool that she was sexually assaulted by Ruggirello. When a team of Metro police officers responded, and Ruggirello was arrested, he claimed that the sex between the two was consensual. Now, Ruggirello is scheduled to appear in a Las Vegas court on Sept. 16, 2021.