LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Clark County District Court docket decide will enable the Israeli official dealing with a sex-related cost to seem in her courtroom remotely, for now.
On Tuesday, Choose Tina Talim signed an order allowing Tom Alexandrovich, 38, to seem in her courtroom through video. Las Vegas Metro police arrested Alexandrovich, an Israeli cyber official who lives in Israel, in August.
Final week, a Clark County grand jury voted to indict Alexandrovich, the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported Thursday. Alexandrovich faces a cost of luring youngsters or mentally unwell individuals with the usage of expertise with the intent to interact in sexual conduct, information stated. The indictment is a procedural formality that strikes the legal case on to the Clark County District Court docket from Henderson Justice Court docket.
Alexandrovich appeared just about throughout his preliminary court docket look on Sept. 3. Through the listening to, Henderson Justice Court docket Choose Barbara Schifalacqua ordered Alexandrovich to keep away from minors and keep off purposes or social media websites for courting.
Alexandrovich’s attorneys had requested Talim to comply with Schifalacqua’s earlier determination, which allowed Alexandrovich to seem remotely until in any other case famous.
Alexandrovich posted a $10,000 bail on the Henderson Detention Middle on Aug. 7 and left the nation. He paid “standard bail,” a course of that enables defendants to pay the payment and waive their proper to a possible trigger listening to, which the justice court docket 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 lady about assembly for “sexual contact,” the 8 Information Now Investigators first reported, citing court docket 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One of many apps police accuse Alexandrovich of utilizing requires customers to be over 18 years outdated, its web site stated.
Talim scheduled Alexandrovich’s first look in her court docket for Oct. 27.
