Nye County officials refer district attorney for ethics investigation

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday it was referring the county’s territory lawyer and his bureau to the State Bar of Nevada and the authorities Ethics Commission aft investigators unearthed “administrative issues” portion probing “false” allegations against a prosecutor.

The Sheriff’s Office, which disclosed the improvement successful a abbreviated video, did not outline those issues but did denote the apprehension of Las Vegas nonmigratory Kris Dane.

Dane, 55, told instrumentality enforcement that she was forced successful 2018 to marque mendacious statements against a authoritative successful speech for a occupation with the territory attorney’s office, Lt. Adam Tippetts said successful the video.

That prosecutor, Ronni Boskovich, was fired successful 2019 and since has filed a favoritism lawsuit against Nye County officials, including District Attorney Chris Arabia.

Arabia could not instantly beryllium reached for remark Wednesday.

Dane was booked Monday aft she turned herself successful connected a complaint of maliciously seeking a felony apprehension oregon prosecution, Tippetts said. Her custody presumption was unclear.

Boskovich’s lawsuit, which was filed this year, alleges that Arabia and Nye County Commissioner Leo Blundo “began a run of harassment and intimidation” against her.

According to the national complaint, Boskovich was targeted “in part, due to the fact that of her father’s governmental aspirations and her begetter and step-father’s presumption arsenic homosexual males,” and she was fired aft she reported Blundo for alleged intersexual harassment.

Blundo and Arabia are adjacent friends, according to the lawsuit, which besides named Nye County and Arabia’s office.

Dane told investigators that she was not allowed to work oregon close thing successful the affidavit she signed successful 2018, Tippetts said. She besides reported that erstwhile she refused to cooperate and raised objections to the contents of the papers aft she work it, Arabia and his deputies retaliated, Tippetts said.

A hunt warrant was served astatine the territory attorney’s bureau connected Nov. 3, and deputies recovered grounds that Dane was alert of what she signed, and that she had adjacent made corrections to the last copy, said Tippetts, who did not expound connected the accusation.

It was not wide if Dane was ever fixed a occupation with the territory attorney’s office.

Additionally, investigators recovered that Arabia’s bureau had filed a perjury ailment against Dane successful Tonopah, portion the “actions identified wrong the charging documents” did not hap determination oregon Nye County, but Clark County.

The two-minute video released by the Sheriff’s Office did not connection further information.

Contact Ricardo Torres-Cortez astatine rtorres@reviewjournal.com. Follow him connected Twitter @rickytwrites.