Report says Las Vegas nurse performed lewd act, threatened patient

A Las Vegas caregiver arrested this period threatened a diligent aft performing a lewd enactment successful her infirmary room, according to an apprehension report.

Ricardo Mederos, 31, was arrested Sept. 1 and charged with 2 counts of unfastened and gross lewdness and 1 number of intersexual coercion, according to jailhouse and tribunal records.

A pistillate told constabulary that portion she was dormant successful a country astatine Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center, Mederos, who was moving arsenic the complaint nurse, performed a lewd enactment successful her room, according to an apprehension study from the Metropolitan Police Department. She said she woke up to find Mederos successful her room, and she saved semen connected a insubstantial to supply evidence.

The pistillate said Mederos threatened her and that she feared her symptom medicine would marque her accusation not look credible.

“She stated that Ricardo past threatened her to not archer anyone, specifically ‘He had radical that could marque definite that I didn’t talk again’, and ‘people connected this level volition instrumentality attraction of it if you accidental anything’, and ‘he would accidental that I was blackmailing him for symptom meds,’” constabulary wrote successful the report.

Mederos declined to talk to constabulary until helium had spoken with a lawyer.

He is being held connected $3,000 bail and expected to look successful tribunal again Oct. 25. If helium posts bail, tribunal records bespeak helium cannot signifier nursing and indispensable debar the hospital.

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