Nevada brother worker held on $86K bail after shooting, standoff at Moonlite BunnyRanch

YERINGTON, Nev. (AP) — A employee at a authorized brothel in Northern Nevada was arrested early Tuesday after a capturing and hours-long standoff with sheriff’s deputies, authorities mentioned.

Nobody was injured, and Lyon County Sheriff Brad Pope mentioned there was no menace to the general public following the arrest of 28-year-old Moonlite Bunny Ranch employee Savannah Henderson, of Dayton, by sheriff’s SWAT officers and first-responders from a number of different businesses.

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Henderson, who additionally makes use of the title Tiara Tae, was being held Tuesday on the Lyon County Jail on greater than $86,000 bail pending an preliminary courtroom look on a number of felony capturing and drug expenses, and misdemeanor expenses of discharging a firearm and resisting arrest, the sheriff’s workplace mentioned.

It was not instantly clear if Henderson had a lawyer who may touch upon her behalf.

Sheriff’s deputies on Monday night time responded to a report a few dispute between co-workers and gunshots fired on the brothel in Mound Home, Pope mentioned in an announcement.

Arriving deputies reported listening to a number of extra gunshots and started evacuating the enterprise whereas Henderson retreated right into a room, the sheriff mentioned. She surrendered about three hours later.

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Pope mentioned Lyon County sheriff’s disaster negotiators had been joined on the scene by Nevada State Police, sheriff’s deputies and police from Carson Metropolis and the Washoe Tribal Police Division, and firefighters from regional businesses.

Nevada has about 20 authorized brothels in a number of rural counties. Prostitution isn’t authorized within the state’s two most populous counties — Clark and Washoe — or within the cities of Las Vegas and Reno.

The Moonlite Bunny Ranch is a brief drive from the state capital, Carson Metropolis, and has a storied historical past. It was featured with flamboyant proprietor Dennis Hof from 2005 to 2007 within the HBO grownup actuality sequence “Cathouse.”

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Hof ran as a Donald Trump-style Republican candidate for Nevada state Meeting in 2018 and received the election regardless of dying a number of weeks earlier whereas celebrating his 72nd birthday at one other brothel he owned.