Las Vegas Cop Charged with Soliciting Prostitute
Early Tuesday morning a seventeen-year veteran of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department was arrested for allegedly violating Nevada solicitation law. Officers reportedly witnessed him picking up a prostitute near the intersection of Paradise and Twain and then beginning a sex act in a parking lot. Both he and the woman were arrested, and he's since been put on paid administrative leave.
Nevada solicitation law makes it a crime to offer to trade sex for money (or another thing of value). A person may still be arrested for solicitation even if the sex act never takes place. Typical defenses to this charge include entrapment, insufficiency of evidence, or mistake.
Maximum penalties for violating Nevada solicitation law, a misdemeanor, are $1,000 in fines and/or 6 months in jail. The typical plea bargain for a first-time offense includes $250 in fines, an AIDS awareness class and/or "John School", and avoiding arrest again until the case is closed. But prostitution may be charged as a felony if a child is involved or the prostitute has HIV.
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