Supreme Court suspends license of Las Vegas attorney accused of sex trafficking

The Nevada Supreme Court has temporarily suspended the law license of longtime defense attorney Gary Guymon, who is accused of sex trafficking and plotting to kill a client.

Guymon, 62, a former prosecutor who has been a Nevada attorney since 1989, faces charges of conspiring to commit murder, solicitation to commit murder, pandering, sex trafficking and bribing or influencing a witness. He was arrested Feb. 3.

“Guymon ‘appears to be posing a substantial threat of serious harm to the public,’” all seven justices wrote in an order filed Monday, citing a Supreme Court rule on attorney suspensions.

On Feb. 7, the State Bar of Nevada filed a petition to have Guymon’s law license suspended. Less than a week later, Guymon filed his own petition, asking to transfer his law license to disability status.

“Guymon contends that he is suffering from a disability due to mental health and addiction problems that makes it impossible to adequately defend against the investigation and any potential disciplinary proceedings,” the court wrote.

The justices rejected Guymon’s petition.

He submitted a mental health letter that contained only a “cursory opinion from a psychologist” who spoke with him on Feb. 6 and 7, according to the order. The note “provides vague background suggesting Guymon is not presently experiencing a significant depressive episode,” the court wrote.

Attorney Dominic Gentile, who represents Guymon in the bar discipline case, said he plans to make another attempt to have Guymon placed on disability inactive status.

Guymon stopped practicing law the day he was arrested, Gentile said.

The court also ruled that Guymon may not withdraw money from accounts containing client funds without getting permission from the bar counsel.

“I think it was the right move,” State Bar Counsel Daniel Hooge said of the court’s decision.

Had Guymon been placed on disability status, the designation would have paused his disciplinary case, according to Hooge. The bar opposed Guymon’s petition.

Guymon’s suspension will be indefinite, Hooge said, and if the allegations in his criminal case are found to be true and the evidence against him can be verified, he will face disbarment.

He is scheduled to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on March 6.

The Metropolitan Police Department said in an arrest report that authorities began investigating Guymon in November after receiving information that he was “inducing and encouraging prostitution from females to provide sexual acts to him and his associates.”

Police began monitoring his phone communications in January.

The report alleged that in one call, Guymon said, “I am not saying I have anything to do with this, but the only way to stop this girl is to kill her. I’m not saying that’s the solution or you know.”

Guymon spoke to two felons about killing a client whom he intimidated into prostitution, police have alleged, but he denied soliciting a murder.

In 2009, he was caught on video stealing a necklace worth less than $300 from a gift shop mannequin at the Sundance Resort in Utah.

The Utah County attorney’s office charged him with one count of misdemeanor theft. He pleaded no contest to trespassing.

The Supreme Court told the state bar in 2010 to determine what, if any, discipline Guymon would face for the Utah misdemeanor, but the bar did not discipline him, Hooge said previously.

Contact Noble Brigham at nbrigham@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BrighamNoble on X.