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beardedmrbean · 2 years ago

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A woman is in custody after reports of an active shooter at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Mound House late Monday night.

Lyon County responded to shots fired inside the brothel off US-50 between Carson City and Dayton just after 10 p.m. on February 20.

The incident began when Lyon County Sheriff’s Office dispatch received a 911 call from the Moonlite Bunny Ranch for a reported argument between two co-workers at the establishment. During the 911 call, the reporting party said they heard apparent gunshots.

Upon arrival of Lyon County Sheriff’s Office personnel, several more gunshots were heard. LCSO personnel immediately began an evacuation of the business and determined that a single employee of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch had fired a gun. That employee then retreated into a room within the business.

LCSO later identified the employee as 28-year-old Dayton resident Savannah Henderson, also known as Tiara Tae.

The Lyon County Sheriff’s Office Crisis Negotiations Team (CNT), Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT), and Technology Team responded to the scene. Additionally, resources from the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Nevada State Police, Highway Patrol Division, the Washoe Tribal Police Department, the Central Lyon County Fire Department, the Carson City Fire Department, and the East Fork Fire Department all responded to the scene to assist.

Henderson surrendered to LCSO personnel around 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday and was taken into custody without further incident. She was booked into the Lyon County Jail on the following charges:

Possession of a firearm by a convicted felon (4 counts) - Felony

Possession of controlled substance (1 count) - Felony

Discharging a firearm where others may be endangered (1 count) – Gross Misdemeanor

Obstructing/Resisting a Peace Officer (1 count) - Misdemeanor

Her bail is set at $86,140.

No one was injured during the incident and there is no current threat to the public.

Anyone who has any information regarding this case is urged to contact the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office, Investigations Division at (775) 577-5206 or by email at [email protected].

Callers may also remain anonymous by contacting Secret Witness online or by text or phone at (775) 322-4900.

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goldenwestborn · 6 years ago

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Brothels in Nevada

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There’s a lawsuit that is seeking to outlaw brothels in Nevada, and so for those that are unaware here’s some information on Nevada’s brothels:

As of February 28, 2018 there are now 21 legal brothels in Nevada.

Here’s some of the things experienced in brothels:

“A grotesque exercise in the dehumanization of women is carried out routinely at Sheri’s Ranch, a legal brothel about an hour’s ride outside of Vegas. There the women have to respond like Pavlov’s dog to an electronic bell that might ring at any hour of the day or night. At the sound of the bell, the prostitutes have five minutes to get to an assembly area where they line up, virtually naked, and submit to a humiliating inspection by any prospective customer who has happened to drop by.”

"I saw a grated iron door in one brothel," says Farley. "The women's food was shoved through the door's steel bars between the kitchen and the brothel area. One pimp starved a woman he considered too fat. She made a friend outside the brothel who would throw food over the fence for her."

“Sheriffs in some counties of Nevada also enforce practices that are illegal. In one city, for example, prostitutes are not allowed to leave the brothel after 5pm, are not permitted in bars, and, if entering a restaurant, must use a back door and be accompanied by a man.”

Illegal activities in brothels/by brothel owners:

I was unable to find any recent reports in regards to underage girls, however in 1998, two pimps place at least four underage girls from Oregon in Nevada’s brothels. Detective Greg Harvey of the Lane Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team in Eugene, Oregon had the following to say: "Never buy the line that nobody under 18 works in (Nevada brothels)," he said. "It's happening."

A former brothel owner sentenced to 15 years in federal prison on child pornography charges.

An audit conducted by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office on four brothels found several license and immigration violations.

Statistics:

81% of women working in Nevada’s brothels want to leave the industry.

An increase in demand for commercial sex leads to more sex trafficking, and Nevada drives this point home: At least 5,016 individuals are sold for sex in an average month in Nevada. Nevada’s number of prostituted persons per capita is 63% larger than the next largest state of New York, and more than twice as many as in California.

Drawing on information from postings on the website Backpage.com, researchers determined that only 28 percent of sex providers in Nevada "appear to be adults working independently with no risk of trafficking."

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One researcher found that at Mustang Ranch all the women were addicted to drugs, with “quite a few” embarking on their substance abuse once at the ranch.

Julie Bindel wrote the following on her first visit to Nevada’s brothels in 2011: “When I arrived, Hof exclaimed, “Any publicity is good to sell pussy!” During my visit, I saw Hof treat the women as merchandise, and witnessed first-hand his employees’ misery. Hof referred to the women as “hoes,” and, as several attested to me, he would often grab their breasts and crotches when they walked past. The women who worked in his brothels were required to line up whenever a john appeared, and were told they were not to smile or move; instead, they should stand very still, staring straight ahead. I also witnessed Hof demand sex from any of the women who took his fancy.”

Age can play a part in how much women make, there is a preference for younger looking women.

Resources:

Politics and Misogyny

It's like you sign a contract to be raped

Panel: Brothels aid sex trafficking

Pimps force underage girls to work in Nevada brothels, Oregon police say

What We Know About Sex Trafficking, Prostitution, and Sexual Exploitation in the U.S.

A Ballot on the Brothels of Nevada

LCSO Internal Audit Report Brothels

Prostitution and Trafficking in 9 Countries: Update on Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.

Let Hof’s death ring in a prostitution-free era

New study: Nevada has biggest commercial sex market of any U.S. state

Nevada’s Commercial Sex Trade

Lamar Odom, Nevada Brothels, and Human Trafficking

Podcast: Are Legal Brothels in Nevada Safe and Here to Stay?

Books:

Prostitution & Trafficking in Nevada: Making the Connections - Melissa Farley

Brothel: Mustang Ranch and Its Women - Alexa Albert

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orbemnews · 4 years ago

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The Next Level in Office Amenities: Wild Horses STOREY COUNTY, Nev. — You can’t ride the wild mustangs at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center in Nevada, but you’re nearly guaranteed to see bands of them loping over sagebrush in a scene that feels straight out of the 1800s. At least until the dust clears and Tesla’s 5.3-million-square-foot “Gigafactory” comes into focus. Welcome to the Silver State, where Elon Musk, a cryptocurrency tycoon and a brothel owner are using a symbol of Americana as a social media recruiting tool. The water cooler used to be the spot in the office to talk shop. Then came on-site cafes, fitness and yoga studios, rooftop gardens, fire pits and rock-climbing walls. “The overarching trend of the last five years has been the hotelification of the office,” said Lenny Beaudoin, an executive managing director at CBRE. For employers, the newest amenities to wow workers are ideological, with environmental commitments topping the list, said Jason H. Somers, the president of Crest Real Estate, a Southern California real estate consultancy. “Health and wellness have become the ultimate luxury,” he said, including access to nature. “Adding value to an employee’s well-being has a significant impact in a compensation package.” In Nevada, wildlife advocates say efforts to market the wild mustangs to bolster a “green” image are interfering with the space and resources the animals need to survive. To attract talent, a green message is easy to promise, but hard to fulfill. There has been progress by corporate giants, but most efforts remain so opaque that it’s tough to spot greenwashing, the use of sustainability efforts to appear more attractive. Embracing high environmental standards can be challenging and expensive. Some companies pay others to reduce emissions. Others plant trees, which can take years to grow and rely heavily on water and care. Protecting large mammals can be even harder. A good example is roaming the Nevada desert. The Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center, a 107,000-acre office park, is home to more than 150 companies with a combined annual payroll of $750 million. Tesla, which broke ground on its battery factory there in 2014, says it will be the biggest building in the world when completed. Mr. Musk has used the wild horses as a selling point to lure workers. “Come work at the biggest & most advanced factory on Earth! Located by a river near the beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains with wild horses roaming free,” he wrote on Twitter. Tesla did not respond to multiple requests for comment. “They’re all kind of rogues out there in the tech world, but so are the horses,” said Kris Thompson, the office park’s project manager. But how does a wild horse help productivity in the workplace? “I think they’re symbolic of what America was, and they’re just beautiful,” said Jeffrey Berns, 58, a former consumer protection lawyer and the chief executive of Blockchains, a blockchain software development company. He added that his company’s “DNA cares about the environment, and that includes the animals and wild horses on our land.” He spends around $300,000 a year on five water tanks and feeding programs for the herds, and maintains that unlike Tesla, he’s not marketing them. The animals support a vision that began with a handshake with Lance Gilman, the owner of the Mustang Ranch brothel and a Storey County commissioner, who bought this land from Gulf Oil in the late 1990s. Today in Business Updated April 12, 2021, 10:12 p.m. ET “Lance is an old cowboy,” Mr. Thompson said. “His word means something. Tech entrepreneurs see that.” Cheap land, space and transportation corridors were draws for Amazon, Walmart and PetSmart, which turned the vacant land into a fulfillment hub. Tesla used a $1.3 billion state tax break to build its $5 billion factory, tapping into a local work force still reeling from the Great Recession and ushering in a wave of Silicon Valley heavies. Switch, a technology infrastructure company, set up three data centers, then Google gobbled up 1,200 acres. Blockchains bought 67,000 acres for $170 million in 2018, becoming the park’s biggest tenant. Mr. Berns hoped to transform the expanse into an experimental city run by his encrypted digital systems. He pledged to build 15,000 homes, turning it into a huge innovation zone, with his company overseeing everything from schools to courts, law and water. “I want this to become the greatest social experiment in the history of the world,” he said. “It’s going to be a cross between Disneyland and the chocolate factory from Willy Wonka.” He’ll have to rethink the scope: In March, the county voted against the secession plan. Mr. Berns says he plans to develop around 25,000 of his 67,000 acres, but for now, it will remain an outpost for wild horses. Nevada is home to more than half of the country’s 95,000 wild horses and burros, descendants of animals brought to the continent by Spanish conquistadors in the 1500s. Managed by the federal Bureau of Land Management to the tune of about $100 million annually, wild horses live on protected and private land crisscrossed by freeways. Around 1,000 resident horses in Storey County regularly come down from higher elevations for food and water and face what can be fatal traffic from workers and lookie-loos itching for the perfect picture. With just 15 percent of the industrial park occupied, and Mr. Thompson expecting occupancy to double in five years, it’s a far more complicated experiment than advertised. “We get about five emergency calls a month in the slow season,” said Corenna Vance, the founder of Wild Horse Connection, an advocacy group. “Horses in traffic, on the wrong side of fencing, vehicular, train accidents, sick or ill horses.” Rescues triple once mares start foaling, said Ms. Vance, whose annual budget is about $100,000, including small donations from the office park and tenants. She says further expansion depletes open spaces and decreases grazing areas. “Horses have migration patterns, and when a development comes in, it cuts that off and there’s more interactions with people,” she said. One solution is humane horse fertility so the animals, which can spend up to 16 hours a day eating, don’t overpopulate and overgraze. Suzanne Roy, the executive director of the nonprofit American Wild Horse Campaign, has worked with the office park since 2012, spending more than $200,000 on fertility control, water and feeding in the last three years. “Development displaces wildlife,” she said. Water stations help, she said, as does an underground crossing built by Switch. But the horses will not offset the park’s overall carbon footprint, said Simon Fischweicher, the North American head of corporations and supply chains at CDP. Tenants like Tesla, whose lithium-ion batteries are costly to mine and nearly impossible to recycle, require a lot of energy. Switch is installing its own solar panels, and there are two green fuel plants on site, but distribution and data centers use large amounts of water for heating and cooling, and “supply chain emissions are on average 11.4 times higher than operational emissions,” Mr. Fischweicher said. Others question the need to use the horses as a lure. Mr. Thompson says most of the roughly 25,000 workers at the office park are blue-collar Nevadans living within an hour commute. They’re here for jobs, not because of horses. Growth for the industrial park means luring workers from out of state, expanding limited housing nearby and developing more land — all of which jeopardize the wildlife incentive. “Quality of food, retail choices and housing are going to shape those decisions more than having wild horses nearby,” Mr. Beaudoin of CBRE said. “I would never bet against someone like Elon Musk, but there are other factors to attract workers.” Source link Orbem News #Amenities #horses #level #office #Wild

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Clark County ranks first in syphilis rates. Here’s why

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In this Monday, Feb. 29, 2016, photo, a person walks into the Southern Nevada Health District office in Las Vegas.

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Monday, April 22, 2019 | 2 a.m.

Certain sexually transmitted diseases go through periods of latency. The infection is temporarily dormant and perhaps less visible, but it could flare up at any time — and it could certainly still spread to someone else.

A parallel, cyclical process seems to be taking place in Clark County when it comes to the incidence of these diseases, particularly syphilis. Southern Nevada consistently ranks high for STD rates per capita compared to national averages. And, once in a while, a particularly troubling “flare-up” will strike, prompting public health officials to escalate educational campaigns about the problem.

Such a flare-up is occurring right now, as Clark County ranked first in the nation for syphilis rates per capita in 2017. The number of reported cases of syphilis here is steadily increasing, with nine cases having been reported in 2016, 20 cases reported in 2017 and 24 reported in 2018. Nationally, 30,644 cases were reported in 2017, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Syphilis is an age-old sexually transmitted infection that can be cured today with antibiotics if identified early on. Fewer than .001 percent of the U.S. population has primary or secondary syphilis. But in Clark County, the rate of the disease is over 2.5 times the national average.

For those who do suffer from syphilis, which is contracted through direct contact with syphilitic sores typically located on the genitals, symptoms range from the unpleasant — rashes, fever, sores and more — to irreversible brain damage in the final stage of the disease.

“It’s a disease that impacts human nature, and left untreated, it can cause a lot of problems for your health and for babies,” said Marlo Tonge, a communicable diseases manager at the Southern Nevada Health District.

The infection can also lead to other complications in the long-term, including meningitis, dementia, blindness and hepatitis, said Dr. Alireza Farabi of University Medical Center. “Don’t think about syphilis as just an STD,” he said. “This is a systemic disease involved from head to toes.”

Although rates of syphilis have increased in recent years in some other major cities, a combination of factors has led to the particularly high rate in Clark County, health department officials say.

Millions of international tourists flock to Las Vegas each year, spreading disease of all kinds. The region also has a high incidence of illegal, unregulated prostitution and a large homeless and indigent population, who are at a much higher risk of contracting STDs.

There also aren’t enough accessible health care resources in the state to serve these at-risk populations, said Dr. Joe Iser, chief health officer at the Southern Nevada Health District. This is particularly problematic when it comes to preventing the spread of congenital syphilis, or syphilis passed from a pregnant mother to a child; Clark County has the second highest rate of congenital syphilis in the nation.

“What we find is that many women who are pregnant may not seek care as quickly as they should,” Iser said. “Most of those may be women who are uninsured, or they don’t have insurance because they may not be documented in the country.”

Other at-risk populations include individuals in their 20s and members of the LGBT community, particularly transgender people and men who have sex with men, said Vince Collins, director of operations at the Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada.

Collins said all at-risk populations — young people, LGBT, low-income, the homeless and more — need access to free testing centers as well as educational resources about the incidence of STDs and how to prevent them.

When the Center previously offered free STDs and HIV testing, the benefits were clear: Upwards of 70 people were tested on any given day, Collins said. He hopes that more regular testing at the Center, in partnership with the health department, will start up again soon.

“If there’s no immediate free testing available to them, it’s kind of off their radar,” Collins said.

Even when testing and health resources are available, it’s also important that health professionals are aware of the particular needs of at-risk populations, something doctors are beginning to understand, said Executive Director John Waldron. More and more, medical schools will invite representatives from the Center to come talk to students about how to discuss STDs, particularly in a way that is sensitive to members of the LGBT community.

“They’re recognizing that doctors aren’t as prepared to have those conversations as they need to be,” Waldron said.

Similarly, health professionals must be equipped to talk to sex workers about STDs without passing judgement, said Christina Parreira, a sex worker and public relations coordinator with Trac-B Exchange, a Vegas-based initiative that aims to reduce infectious disease and harm from syringe use and disposal.

In Las Vegas, where prostitution is illegal, those who engage in prostitution have fewer resources than their legal counterparts in rural Nevada’s highly regulated brothels. Many lack health insurance and don’t feel comfortable sharing their status as a sex worker with doctors and nurses, Parreira said.

“We need more non-judgmental care, people who are well-versed in sex work [and] that have cultural competency,” she said.

Nonetheless, Tonge emphasized that all members of the Las Vegas community are welcome at the health department, where they can get tested for free — whether they are undocumented, homeless, engaging in prostitution or anything else.

“Really, all we’re trying to do is identify disease and make sure people are being treated,” she said.

In addition to testing, preventive measures are equally, if not more, important, Tonge said. Talk to your sexual partners, and when in doubt about a partner’s sexual history, always use a condom.

Still, Collins noted that the incidence of syphilis doesn’t seem to be receding in Clark County, and he questions whether the issue needs to be tackled more holistically: not just by medical professionals and small organizations, but also by elected officials, educators and more.

After all, he said, does Las Vegas want to be known as the syphilis capital of the country?

“As a community, we need to decide that this is a really important thing for everybody to get behind so we can come off that list,” Collins said.

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goldenwestborn · 6 years ago

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“Prostitution is modern day slavery. Like those subjected to slavery, the prostituted are subject to domination and to the arbitrary will of another person,” the suit says.

Guinasso served as a lawyer for a Nevada group, “No Little Girl,” which launched an unsuccessful campaign to end prostitution in Lyon County through a ballot measure last year.”

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itsayrewolf · 5 years ago

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It’s Tuesday, the Afternoon, After. TJ Pretty much has pushed me aside. Guess the reference of her doing the Casll Girl thing wasn’t appreciated. Thing is; it wasn’t specificaly about her. The article in question, could and was a generalality for all us male corpucsles to know if that sweet thing that’s giving you a wink, is really interested in you, or The green in your jeans. One of the things that I appreciate at the brothels in Wells, Nevada that I frequent, is that YOU KNOW going in that your going to shell out some cash from your stash, to get laid. You just know, that the darling, spreads for bread. Even if you buy that $30.00 bottle of whatever beverage and visit at the bar, you know if you go to the boodwah, that its cash up front to get horizontal. It’s no tease, like out here in the vast mountain desert called Idaho. Now with that all said. If PoohBear was not a factor in this scenario, I’d be all over TJ in a Hazzard County second. Thing is at the time she was here and the brief time I got to know her, she was flirting with some Taco. Nothing against Taco’s. Our Sub Charter President Videl, Prunenda of Blackfoot Idaho aka CBS Or Country Boy Spud, on the CB, is 100 % Taco. His Mom and Dad have always been kind to me and The Knytes. In fact if I could find a resource, I’d recruit, Hispanic women into our modeling gig, as well as on air. Yet that is an elusive pursuit, as it seems, TJ. No return phone calls or texts. Okay, I messed up. I appologized , What else must I do, to rectify the situation? Some of you may ask why, do I stay after TJ? Reason, if contracted by the Knytes, TJ could be one helluva human resource. There is enough Chemistry there that she would and could be a valuable addition to the Knyte’s enterprises. Yet, because of attitudes and rumors all over this dorky Motel that I live in for now, TJ and many others got the wrong idea. What part of I’m involved with PoohBear, didn’t somebody understand>? Alex, down at Denny’s here in Burley, understands that. So Alex and I are buds, and eventually and an employee. That’s it. The idea here, is get as much female on air that can double as photographic eye candy when needed, is the goal. Not for jumping in bed doing the wyld thing. With TJ, its her, as well as The Ice Queen, that’s just icing on that cup cake. I’m working to build an small empire for the Knytes and the WolfPack. As I get the feeling that my days are numbered at A1, in Twin Falls, following Charlies death, so, it is me building my own company. TJ could be a very important part of us here. I would hate to think, that a mere misunderstanding, would make her a bit standoffish, but hey, when it comes to women, I have no clue. Okay then.

So, speaking of Denny’s here in Burley. The WolfPack, had its monthly meeting there last, night which might be one of the reasons I’m dizzy as hell, since I ain’t slept for 24 hours. All day at A1, finishing up things there, but good news; looks like we found, if all goes right, an office for the radio gig. Now its time to get serious about that. It’s also time to start looking for a much nicer place to drop anchor, and hang up my at in. This Evergreen, is okay, but its a dive at best. And that’s putting it nicely. The idiots who run this thing called the Evergreen, are too damn cheap, to fix hardly anything, its filthy. Flies everywhere. Its so bad with flies that I found myself calling them pets. But things are on the resurrection here. Plan on venturing down to fetch LexiBelle in late October. Once that is done the picture will be complete.

My final thoughts this evening, since I need to get ready to go talk to my Bishop, at 18:30, I have done my best here. I have served and will proudly continue to serve The WolfPack as well as the Knytes. The reason I do so, is that these noble men, are not just a bunch of guys and some gals who I ride a bike with, fly a aircraft with, or restore a custom ride for. These noble warriors are those who protected my butt in combat and beyond that I proudly fought with as a Confederate Marine. And I’ll be damn if anything or anyone, will prevent that. To TJ

If there was anything that I did that upset you or caused you any harm or discomfort, I’d like to sit down with you, have a beer and discuss it. I am terribly sorry.

Until L8R Aviators,

Its the Afternoon After, Welcome to The HazzardAyre Journal, Take 2 It's Tuesday, the Afternoon, After. TJ Pretty much has pushed me aside. Guess the reference of her doing the Casll Girl thing wasn't appreciated.

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Immigration violations, possible sex trafficking found at Nevada brothels

(Reuters) – An investigation of three legal Nevada brothels owned by a reality TV star and candidate for the state legislature found immigration violations and indications of possible human trafficking, the county sheriff said.

FILE PHOTO: Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch legal brothel and recent winner of the Republican primary election for Nevada State Assembly District 36, sits in the parlor of the brothel with legal prostitutes Chantel Baby (L) and Maggie Monroe, in Mound House, Nevada, U.S. June 16, 2018. REUTERS/Steve Marcus/File Photo

An inspection this week of the Bunny Ranch, Kit Kat Ranch and Love Ranch, all owned by Dennis Hof, capped a four-month probe by the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Sheriff Al McNeil said in a statement.

Hof, who appeared in the HBO reality TV show “Cathouse” about prostitutes at one of his brothels, won the Republican state primary in June for a seat in the Nevada assembly and is considered the favorite in the November general election.

Hof denied any immigration violations or trafficking at the brothel and said the sheriff’s department was responsible for screening prospective employees.

“It’s on the county, not us,” Hof told Reuters.

FILE PHOTO: Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite BunnyRanch legal brothel and recent winner of the Republican primary election for Nevada State Assembly District 36, poses outside the brothel in Mound House, Nevada, U.S. June 16, 2018. REUTERS/Steve Marcus

Nevada is the only U.S. state where prostitution is legal, although it is confined to brothels in eight counties.

“The discovery of U.S. immigration law violations in our legal brothel system is extremely alarming,” McNeil said in a statement posted on Facebook on Thursday.

“The ability to coerce, exploit and traffic non-US citizens into Lyon County by foreign criminal enterprises is going to be difficult to detect and deter by our limited capabilities and resources of foreign born applicants, which has caused us to develop better working partnerships with federal agencies to combat human trafficking efforts,” he said.

Lyon County Sheriff deputies and U.S. Customs and Immigration officials this week conducted an inspection of work cards required for prostitutes at Nevada’s brothels, McNeil said.

A four-month-long internal investigation found prostitute registration procedures to be rife with violations over several decades, the sheriff’s office statement said.

“Those practices include US immigration law violations, foreign country human trafficking indicators, fraudulent statements, issuance of work cards prior to completing criminal history background checks, and inability to validate out-of-state and US and other foreign national documents to determine identity,” the statement said.

Reporting by Dan Whitcomb; editing by Bill Tarrant, Leslie Adler and Alexander Smith

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These 17 Companies Will Help You Repay Your Student Loan

Student loans can dampen the ability of new grads to get on their feet financially, causing stress at home and at work. According to Student Loan Hero, the graduating class of 2016 had an average student loan balance of $37,172 — up six percent from the year before.

SEE ALSO: Best Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree

While it’s daunting to see that number rise, the good news is that, in an effort to recruit and retain the best hires, a growing number of employers have started programs to help employees pay back those hefty student loans. Here are a few of those companies helping workers get out of debt.

1. Chegg

In April 2015, tutoring and study services company Chegg announced its college loan reduction plan for full-time employees in partnership with Tuition.IO, a company that provides a web-based platform for tracking and managing student loan payments. This benefit has an annual cap of $1,000 (less taxes), but has no cap on the total amount an employee can receive.

2. ChowNow

ChowNow has found this perk so useful in hiring talent that the company decided to double it from when it first started offering it to employees. The Los Angeles-based online food ordering company has an employer-paid student loan assistance program that matches up to $1,000 a year of employee payments.

3. CommonBond

Since December 2016, this lending marketplace platform has been granting $100 per month to its employees to pay down student loans. While CommonBond limits the perk at $1,200 per year, the company continues helping its employees until they fully pay off their student loans. Employees also have the option to refinance their student loans with CommonBond. On average, student borrowers save over $14,000 when refinancing through CommonBond, according to the company.

4. Credit Suisse

The financial services company doesn’t offer a lump sum benefit to its employees, but instead provides a 0.25 percent discount on interest rates to workers that refinance their student loans with online lender SoFi.

5. Connelly Partners

Boston-based ad agency Connelly Partners works with Gradifi to offer a student loan repayment plan that improves the longer the employee stays with the company. Like a 401(k) plan, the agency matches up to $100 per month of its employees’ debt payments. Employees who stick around for at least six months receive a $1,000 student loan payment bonus. Those who work for the company for five years receive another $1,000 bonus for the sixth year.

6. Fidelity Investments

The financial services firm makes an annual $2,000 direct payment to employees’ student loan servicers, up to a total of $10,000. If your career with Fidelity requires you to continue your education, then Fidelity will reimburse you 90 percent of qualifying costs (up to $10,000 per year) of a work-related degree or certification program. You must have worked for the company for at least six months to qualify.

7. Kronos

Based in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, the workforce management software provider has partnered with solutions provider Student Loan Genius to pay up to $500 per year to help employees pay down student debt.

8. LendEDU

Since February 2016, the online marketplace for student loan financing has paid $2,400 per year ($200 per month) to employees with student loan debt.

9. Martin Health System

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Employees working in the nursing field at Martin Health System in Florida can receive up to $2,000 per year to help pay down their student loans. In addition to this benefit from Martin Health System, Florida nurses can also work in areas with staff shortages to qualify for the state’s Nursing Student Loan Forgiveness Program or the federal Perkins Loan Cancellation for Nurses and Medical Technicians.

10. Moonlite Bunny Ranch

In 2015, Dennis Hof, the owner of the legal brothel Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, promised to match 100 percent of his employees’ student loan payments for two months, up to the full amount that they made during that period.

11. Natixis Global Asset Management

All Natixis employees receive an annual $1,000 student loan repayment benefit, up to $10,000 over a 10-year period. The company used to require that workers reached five years of employment in order to receive a lump sum benefit of $5,000, but did away with the requirement in July 2016.

12. Nvidia

This computing giant offers comprehensive student loan repayment options. First, employees working at least 20 hours per week who graduated within the previous three years can apply for a reimbursement of $6,000 a year for qualifying student loan payments, up to $30,000. Second, employees who successfully refinance their student loans with SoFi receive a bonus ranging from $200 to $500 and pay no loan origination fees. Third, employees who need to go back to college can receive a reimbursement of up to $5,250 each year for qualified job-related educational expenses, including tuition and books, as long as they earn at least a B average.

13. Powertex

The clothing design company was among the first businesses in Wisconsin to partner with Gradifi to offer a student loan repayment assistance program. Powertex gives eligible employees $100 per month for student loan payments for up to six years.

14. PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC)

Associates and senior associates at the consulting firm receive $100 per month ($1,200 a year) toward student loan payments for up to six years.

15. SoFi

Many employers partner with SoFi to offer a student loan repayment assistance program. The online lender also offers its own eligible employees $200 per month to help them fully pay back student loans.

16. Staples

The office supply retailer offers top-performing full-time employees $100 a month for three years, for a total of $3,600 in student loan assistance. To maintain their eligibility, employees must meet set criteria throughout the entire three years.

17. Aetna

As of January 2017, the health care company matches employees’ student loan payments of up to $2,000 per year, with a lifetime maximum of $10,000. The program is available to employees who have graduated within the previous three years from an accredited institution.

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This article is from Damian Davila of Wise Bread, an award-winning personal finance and credit card comparison website.