LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An Israeli official arrested in a Las Vegas intercourse sting appeared in court docket just about for the primary time since his arrest final month in a case that has sparked questions on bail and worldwide legislation.
Tom Alexandrovich, 38, faces a cost of luring a baby with a pc for intercourse acts, in keeping with police. He posted a $10,000 bail on the Henderson Detention Heart on Aug. 7 and left the nation.
Alexandrovich is an Israeli authorities official who was in Las Vegas for a cyber occasion, the 8 Information Now Investigators confirmed after his arrest.
Final week, Henderson Justice Courtroom Chief Decide Barbara Schifalacqua ordered Alexandrovich to look in court docket just about for his preliminary arraignment. In court docket on Wednesday, Schifalacqua ordered Alexandrovich to keep away from minors and keep off purposes or social media websites for courting.
“This court can’t underscore the serious nature of the offense alleged here and carrying the weight that it does regarding a potential sentence,” Schifalacqua mentioned.
Prosecutors didn’t ask Schifalacqua to extend bail and she or he stored the quantity set at $10,000. Alexandrovich posted bail shortly after his arrest, court docket information confirmed. He paid “standard bail,” a course of that permits defendants to pay the price and waive their proper to a possible trigger listening to, which the justice court docket oversees. No choose was a part of the usual bail course of.
“He posted that bond before any judge did any review whatsoever,” Schifalacqua mentioned.
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, Alexandrovich chatted on-line with the decoy posing as a 15-year-old woman about assembly for “sexual contact,” the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported, citing court docket paperwork. Police then arrested Alexandrovich as he ready to fulfill with the decoy.
Tom Alexandrovich (heart) speaks throughout a convention. (Israel Nationwide Cyber Directorate)
One of many apps police accuse Alexandrovich of utilizing requires customers to be over 18 years previous, its web site mentioned.
Alexandrovich’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, mentioned their consumer has stayed in touch with them and has not violated any phrases of his preliminary launch and served each the Israeli and U.S. governments.
Alexandrovich handed a polygraph examination, which included a query about having him not having “relations” with anybody beneath 19, Chesnoff mentioned.
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“Which in lay terms means he passed the polygraph,” Chesnoff mentioned. “I don’t believe he poses a danger. Nobody in the country where he lives has taken any steps to put any restrictions on him that exist in their country in similar circumstances.”
Alexandrovich didn’t communicate through the listening to on Wednesday, solely saying he understood the phrases Schifalacqua positioned on him. The choose added she solely have jurisdiction solely circumstances in the US.
The court docket scheduled a listening to for Oct. 6, when Schifalacqua might schedule a preliminary listening to.
