\nJeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal \u00b7 February 10, 2015 at 12:16 am<\/p>\n
\tMore than 20 years ago, Ray Marion Cuddy was convicted of kidnapping the daughter of casino mogul Steve Wynn following one of the more sensational criminal trials in Las Vegas history.<\/p>\n
\tNow, at age 69, the former circus performer and health club manager is back in Las Vegas, presumably at a federal halfway house where he awaits a March 11 release from custody.<\/p>\n
\tThe U.S. Bureau of Prisons wouldn\u2019t confirm Monday whether Cuddy is staying at the Las Vegas Community Correctional Center, the city\u2019s only federal halfway house, just off the Strip behind Circus Circus. But in recent court papers, U.S. Probation Officer Todd Fredlund said Cuddy is under federal supervision in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
\tAt Fredlund\u2019s request, Senior U.S. District Judge Lloyd George last week filed an order barring Cuddy from any direct contact with the daughter, Kevyn Wynn, or her family during Cuddy\u2019s three-year period of supervised release.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThe victim and her family were significantly impacted by the actions of the offender and his co-defendants,\u201d Fredlund wrote in his court papers. \u201cIn light of the egregious conduct, and the fact the offender has returned to the community where the victim\u2019s family resides, a condition prohibiting the offender from having any contact with the victim or the victim\u2019s family is warranted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFredlund, who did not return phone calls Monday, gave the court Cuddy\u2019s signed agreement to stay away from the Wynns.<\/p>\n
\tCuddy can\u2019t come within 500 feet of the Wynns\u2019 homes or businesses and must spend six months at a federal halfway house before living on his own, according to George\u2019s order.<\/p>\n
\tNeither Steve Wynn nor Nevada U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden would comment on Cuddy\u2019s pending release.<\/p>\n
\tBut attorney Mitchell Posin, who defended Cuddy during the high-profile trial before George, said he doesn\u2019t see Cuddy as a threat to the Wynn family.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cHe had no malice toward them,\u201d Posin said. \u201cThis was all business for him. I sure don\u2019t see him as any danger to the Wynns.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIn May 1994, a federal jury convicted Cuddy and an accomplice, Jacob Sherwood, of extortion, money laundering and other charges stemming from the kidnapping. Records show Sherwood was released from prison in 2010. A third accomplice, Anthony Watkins, cooperated with authorities and was sentenced to 6\u00bd years in prison in 1994.<\/p>\n
\tOn the night of July 26, 1993, the kidnappers abducted Kevyn Wynn, then 26, at gunpoint from her Spanish Trail condominium. She was bound, her eyes were taped shut, and she was forced to pose for photos in her underwear, according to news reports.<\/p>\n
\tThe kidnappers threatened to make the photos public if her father called authorities.<\/p>\n
\tWynn paid the $1.45 million ransom with cash from the casino cage at The Mirage, then his flagship resort<\/p>\n
\tAfter dropping off the money in the parking lot of Sonny\u2019s Saloon a block from The Mirage, Wynn was told how to find his daughter at a parking lot at McCarran International Airport, where she was left bound but unharmed in the back seat of her Audi.<\/p>\n
\tWynn didn\u2019t report the kidnapping until after he paid the ransom, but he had one of the top private security forces on the Strip to help him through the ordeal, which lasted only a few hours. His security chief, the late James Powers, was a former special agent in charge of the Las Vegas FBI.<\/p>\n
\tFBI agents alerted by Wynn arrested Cuddy a week later at a luxury car dealership in Newport Beach, Calif., as he was paying a $70,000 installment on a $183,000 Ferrari. The other two kidnappers were arrested a month later.<\/p>\n
\tBoth Kevyn and Steve Wynn testified during the trial.<\/p>\n
\tThe younger Wynn described on the witness stand being grabbed in her kitchen by two masked men late in the evening and being posed and photographed with her eyes covered by captors she couldn\u2019t see.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cI thought I\u2019d take off my clothes and I\u2019d be raped,\u201d she testified. \u201cI said, \u2018Please don\u2019t hurt me. Please don\u2019t hurt me.\u2019 \u2026 I was shaking. I was petrified.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tSteve Wynn testified that he was \u201cfrightened beyond description and very confused,\u201d as he dealt with the kidnappers.<\/p>\n
\tAfter the trial, the Wynns did their best to move on with their lives, while Cuddy spent the past two decades behind bars.<\/p>\n
\tIn requesting the changes for Cuddy\u2019s supervised release, Fredlund told George that Cuddy \u201cis without financial resources and support to secure an appropriate release address\u201d and that he should be kept in the halfway house for six months to give him time to find a residence here.<\/p>\n
\tFredlund said a Bureau of Prisons report on Cuddy concluded that he was a daily user of alcohol, cocaine and hallucinogenic drugs at the time of the kidnapping. The release conditions include regular drug and alcohol testing.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cThis information is contrary to what Cuddy divulged to the probation office when interviewed for his pre-sentence report,\u201d Fredlund wrote. \u201cCuddy at the time reported substances were not a problem and that he had experimented with marijuana on one occasion<\/p>\n
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