(Lexington Herald Leader) A former Lexington imam who previously pleaded guilty to a kidnapping scheme is now charged with sexually assaulting a tenant.
Mahmoud Shaker Shalash, 76, is charged with third-degree sexual assault, a misdemeanor, after police say he groped a woman living in a motel he owns.
The woman said Shalash tried to kiss her forcibly and pulled down her shirt last month at the Days Motel Lodge on Versailles Road.
Shalash, the former imam of the Islamic Center of Lexington, was in the news in 2020, too, when he was sentenced to two years in prison and five years of supervision in a kidnapping plot.
