Las Vegas Review-Journal (Sunday)
Four accused of wide-ranging child sex crimes
Pahrump residents in jail; bail amounts vary
Four Pahrump residents are facing a host of charges following a joint investigation of alleged child abuse and sexual assault.
Nye County Sheriff ’s Office detectives executed a search warrant at a residence, and the suspects were arrested and booked into the Nye County Detention Center, according to a video statement released Saturday.
The suspects were identified as 39-year-old Eric Garcia, 30-year-old Mickey Cagle, 50-year-old Danny
Hicks and 49-year-old Vicki Bachli. Detention center officials told the Review-Journal that the suspects were arrested Wednesday.
The Sheriff ’s Office partnered with the Division of Child and Family Services to open an investigation Jan. 17 into allegations of child sexual abuse involving multiple juveniles at a Pahrump home, the Sheriff ’s Office said.
“It was reported that the children were given alcohol that made them sick and that they were sexually abused by all suspects on multiple occasions,” the office said.
The children described numerous acts of sexual abuse in detail that involved all the suspects, according to the statement.
The children have been placed in the care of the Division of Child and Family Services, Nye County sheriff ’s Capt. David Boruchowitz told the Review-Journal on Saturday.
Garcia was charged with 20 counts of child abuse; 17 counts of sexual assault; two counts of bestiality; 17 counts of lewdness with a child younger than 14; 20 counts of preparing, advertising or distributing pornography with a minor; 20 counts of using or permitting a minor to produce pornography; and 20 counts of possession of pornography of a person younger than 16. His bail was set at $200,000.
Cagle was charged with two counts of sexual assault, two counts of child abuse and two counts of lewdness with a child younger than 14. His bail was set at $100,000.
Hicks was charged with four counts of child abuse, three counts of sexual assault, two counts of bestiality and four counts of lewdness with a child younger than 14. His bail is set at $150,000.
Bachli was charged with child abuse and lewdness with a child younger than 14. Her bail is set at $50,000.