Las Vegas Criminal Defense Blog

Last month a fifty-one year old woman was charged with assault and indecent exposure after allegedly failing to cooperate with a TSA screener in the Reno-Tahoe International Airport. She was also charged with violating Nevada disturbing the peace law. The woman apparently escaped prosecution for a man’s murder nearly two decades ago due to mental incompetence. She was booked at Washoe Jail on $11,000 bail.

At the airport, the woman allegedly was disruptive while waiting in line to be screened. She supposedly yelled profanities, pulled her own hair and was uncooperative with the screener, eventually exposing her private parts to the screener. She and her husband were on their way to Phoenix to visit relatives.

Nevada disturbing the peace law makes it a misdemeanor to maliciously and willfully disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood, individual or family by loud or unusual noise, by rambunctious or offensive behavior, or by threatening, traducing, fighting, challenging or quarreling. Misdemeanors are punished by a fine of up to $1,000 and/or a jail sentence of up to six months. Records for convictions of violating Nevada disturbing the peace law can usually be sealed after two years have passed since the sentence has ended.

To read more about this story, go to http://www.rgj.com/article/20100319/NEWS01/100319031/-1/CARSON/Reno-woman-faces-assault-indecent-exposure-charges.

On Friday, a man allegedly tried to take off all his clothes at the terminal check-in in the Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport. He was arrested for disorderly conduct and indecent exposure for undressing. The man later told police his actions were the result of him missing his medication for bi-polar disorder.

In Nevada, people break Las Vegas indecent exposure law (NRS 201.220) by exposing their private parts, especially in a sexually suggestive way, such as flashers. Suspected prostitutes are frequently arrested for indecent exposure if cops find them soliciting by bearing their bodies. A mother breast-feeding her child is not considered indecent exposure in Nevada.

A first offense for breaking Las Vegas indecent exposure law is a gross misdemeanor, carrying up to one year in jail and/or up to a $2,000 fine. Any subsequent offense for breaking Las Vegas indecent exposure law is a category D felony, punishable by one to four years in prison and maybe a $5,000 fine. People charged with this crime are frequently also charged with open or gross lewdness.