A Las Vegas television station is sitting on the story of a credible allegation of rape against Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt, whose hard-drinking college days have been well documented.

A source on Facebook from Louisiana’s capital city which is familiar with the victim’s story reached out to tell me that the woman — whose name is Danielle P. — boarded a flight to Las Vegas to recount the story in October and returned after having spoken on camera to a news reporter.

The source says Danielle P. told reporters at CBS 8 KLAS TV news that she was raped by Adam Laxalt in New Orleans when he was a student at Tulane University in late 1996.

Shortly afterward, Laxalt entered rehab.

But the story has not come out.

Yet.

Just over two weeks ago, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported that Adam Laxalt was arrested in 1996 on charges of assaulting a police officer. They wrote:

The GOP governor hopeful, who was born in Reno but raised in Alexandria, told the RGJ he was drinking underage at the woman’s house when police were called to the home. “When I was 17, I was at a friend’s house, when police suddenly started to enter and I reacted the wrong way — trying to keep them from coming in and asking for a warrant.” Laxalt has been public about his teenage struggles with alcohol, including his 1997 DUI arrest in Virginia and his decision to enter a rehab facility at age 18. He said the assault charges leveled against him were dismissed.

Sources close to the woman say that Laxalt attacked Danielle P. just before entering rehab after a long night of drinking in uptown New Orleans.

The future Nevada Attorney General walked Danielle P. home from the bar when he was in a drunken state, and she let him pass out on her sofa, only to awaken later to Laxalt sexually assaulting her without protection.

Today, the woman who alleges Laxalt raped her has PTSD from that incident and is currently suffering from a debilitating physical impairment. She lives at her parents’ home in central Louisiana now.

Adam Laxalt has spoken publicly about his battle against alcoholism and his 1997 Virginia DUI arrest.

The source indicated that Danielle P. has contemporaneous documentary evidence from Laxalt himself which expresses apology for “taking advantage” of her, but that it could not be confirmed, nor debunked by forensic analysis.

I called seeking comment from the newsdesk at CBS 8 today three times in a two hour span, but the PM desk operator told me that the News Directors were in a meeting that could not be interrupted to give comment. In my last call I was forwarded to a voicemail.

The newsdesk operator told me the KLAS investigative journalist who purportedly interviewed Danielle P. is not working today and did not answer a call I placed to her cellphone or reply to a Tweet seeking comment.

I called the Adam Laxalt for Governor campaign twice today, but the campaign office told me that they would pass my information to their media person, whereupon I stressed that it was an important story going out shortly.

The Laxalt campaign didn’t call back to give comment before publication.