Former Miss Nevada Beauty Queen Katherine Nicole Rees Busted For Drug Trafficking in Las Vegas
A former Nevada beauty queen with a long rap sheet was arrested and charged for trafficking meth earlier this week.
After being crowned as Miss Nevada USA in 2006, Katherine Nicole Rees was stripped of her title in 2007 after a series of sexually explicit photographs surfaced of her simulating sex acts and showing her breasts, reports The New York Daily News.
Last September, police reports showed that Rees sold meth to a man identified as J. Peacock. The following month, she was found with 5.3 grams of methamphetamine, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In 2008, she paid fines for several misdemeanor traffic violations, while in 2009, she was charged with resisting arrest during a Las Vegas traffic stop.
A year and a half later, Rees was questioned by customs officers at a Sydney airport on an Australian television show called "Border Security: Australia's Front Line." The officers discovered that swabs of her laptop and Louis Vuitton bag tested positive for cocaine and methamphetamine.
"I don't do drugs," Rees said on the show. "I don't use cocaine. I don't use any kind of pill, no kind of Xanax, no anything. I don't use anything."
"I'm from Las Vegas, so you never know what the heck's going to be around out there," Rees said at the time. "And thank gosh I don't have anything on me, because I don't do any sort of illegal activity, but Las Vegas apparently does."
She was never charged for the incident.
In 2012, Rees pleaded guilty to one count of drug possession, but Las Vegas prosecutors agreed to dismiss a drug paraphernalia and marijuana charge. However, court records show she was ordered to undergo drug counseling.
Now the 30-year-old is facing a string of meth-related charges in Las Vegas, according to a criminal complaint filed on Monday. She is facing four felony charges for trafficking methamphetamine, selling a controlled substance and two counts of conspiracy to violate the uniform controlled substances act.
On Wednesday, a $50,000 arrest warrant for Rees was issued by the Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Joe Sciscento, reports Metro.
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