LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Clark County grand jury has voted to indict an Israeli official arrested in a Las Vegas intercourse sting from August, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Tom Alexandrovich, 38, faces a cost of luring youngsters or mentally in poor health individuals with the usage of expertise with the intent to interact in sexual conduct, data mentioned. The grand jury voted Wednesday to indict Alexandrovich, prosecutors introduced Thursday.
The indictment is a procedural formality that strikes the legal case on to the Clark County District Courtroom.
Alexandrovich appeared just about throughout his preliminary courtroom look on Sept. 3. Throughout the listening to, Henderson Justice Courtroom Decide Barbara Schifalacqua ordered Alexandrovich to avoid minors and keep off purposes or social media websites for courting.
Alexandrovich is an Israeli authorities official who was in Las Vegas for a cyber occasion, the 8 Information Now Investigators confirmed after his arrest.
Alexandrovich posted a $10,000 bail on the Henderson Detention Heart on Aug. 7 and left the nation. He paid “standard bail,” a course of that permits defendants to pay the charge and waive their proper to a possible trigger listening to, which the justice courtroom oversees. No decide was a part of the usual bail course of.
On Wednesday, Aug. 6, Alexandrovich allegedly 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 courtroom paperwork. Police then arrested Alexandrovich as he ready to satisfy with the decoy.
One of many apps police accuse Alexandrovich of utilizing requires customers to be over 18 years previous, its web site mentioned.
Tom Alexandrovich (heart) speaks throughout a convention. (Israel Nationwide Cyber Directorate)
Alexandrovich’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, beforehand mentioned their shopper has stayed involved with them, has not violated any phrases of his preliminary launch, and has served each the Israeli and U.S. governments.
Alexandrovich was scheduled to seem in courtroom on Oct. 15. It was unclear if he might seem just about or if he must seem in individual.
