Rahiem Paige
A convicted Philadelphia sex offender was found guilty of multiple firearm offenses in connection to a 2022 domestic violence incident with his underage partner inside an Atlantic City casino hotel room.
Rahiem Paige, now 28, was arrested during Labor Day weekend 2022, after police responded to Caesar's Atlantic City for a domestic assault between him and his 16-year-old significant other, according to the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office.
The gender of the minor was not given.
Police were told Paige had brandished a revolver during the incident.
While police talked to the victim and tried to find the handgun, Paige was seen on surveillance cameras walking toward the casino parking garage with a fanny pack, and then returning to the casino without it, according to the allegations.
A revolver was later found in the defendant’s rental car parked in the casino garage along with the fanny pack.
Paige went to trial this week before Judge Bernard DeLury, after opting for a bench trial rather than a jury.
The victim could not be located to testify to the assault, "despite extensive efforts by detectives from the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office, as well as Philadelphia Police Department Special Victims Unit detectives," the Prosecutor's Office stated.
Atlantic City Police Officer Marquez Jones,Sgt. T.J. Moynihan and Detective Robert Carty Jr. testified to the firearm charges, and Paige was found guilty of those.
He already was on probation for institutional sexual assault and unlawful contact with a minor out of Philadelphia County at the time of the crime.
Paige faces five to 10 years in prison when he is sentenced June 20. He would have a parole ineligibility of five years.
