A woman was arrested in conclusion hebdomad for allegedly impersonating a police force officer and robbing $200 from a piece at the Flamingo Las Vegas. She tasered the adult male and punched him inwards the face patch inward a hotel elbow room at the Las Vegas Strip property, constabulary said.
Kayla Wingerd, 24, was arrested on a robbery charge, KLAS, a local TV station, reported. An impersonation of a public official bearing was not pursued past prosecutors.
Wingerd was arrested Friday. She was set-aside(p) at Joe Clark County Detention Center, and remained in custody as of tardily Wednesday. Her bond certificate was lot at $5,000.
The incident took put on Dec. 18. The man invited Wingerd to his hotel room.
Flashed Badge
She allegedly stole the money and upon leaving showed something that initially appeared to follow a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) badge. It actually may get been a surety safety device badge.
She and then warned the piece “he was dependent to jail because harlotry was not legal,” KLAS said, citing an prescribed law report.
She advised him that “if he didn’t need to proceed to jail, he’d had to permit her to walkway come out with no problem and demanded money,” the written report added.
Wingerd also allegedly zapped him inwards the face with a stun gun, potential a taser, “several times before leaving the hotel room,” the story revealed.
In January, Wingerd told law she asked the man for $200 to “hang out” with her, the write up said. She also said she zapped the dupe because he was attempting “to make me inward the room,” the cover adds.
It was not immediately crystallize why it took a half-year for the police force to urinate the arrest.
Metro police said thither are online profiles for Wingerd. They appear on societal media.
Prior Casino Arrests
In recent months, women were apprehended after allegedly stealing items from men at Las Vegas casino-hotels. Some of the men were drugged.
For instance, inward June, an alleged fancy woman swiped a Patek Philippe watch from a man at a Las Vegas Strip hotel, cops revealed. The view is valued at most $100,000. The piece believes he was drugged past the suspect. The 2 ab initio met at the hotel’s bar.
The woman, later identified as Sarah Richards, 32, of Las Vegas, was spotted after the incident at a different Strip hotel past an undercover Metro officer. She began speaking around whoredom to him, police said.
Based on her conversation, she was charged with prostitution-related counts, according to KLAS. She also was supercharged with burglary and grand thieving for the look on theft, KLAS added.
Also, inward June, a adult female was arrested related to to the theft of $90,000 worth of casino chips from a man. The two ostensibly met at the High Limit Lounge at Las Vegas’ Aria Casino. During the course of action of the night, she allegedly slipped him some tolerant of drug.
When the unnamed man later woke upward inwards his hotel room at the Vdara Hotel & Spa, his chips were gone. He also spotted an discharge capsulate with some variety of residue nearby.
He recalls that during the night, “things got blurry” and he became dizzy. Metro police later arrested Ebony Bairfield, 40, of Las Vegas. Bairfield was supercharged with administering a dose to assistance inward the charge of felony, burglary, and grand larceny, KLAS said.