Judge who Resigned to Avoid Ethics Probe after She Reported Underage Prostitution Was Declared Dead by Suicide
January 25, 2023 in News by RBN Staff
source: needtoknownews
Summary by JW Williams
Las Vegas: Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, 53, who stepped down as a Justice of the Peace before a hearing regarding her ethics investigation, was reportedly found dead by suicide on January 20, 2023. There are no details about how she died. The mother of three reported that her then 16-yearold daughter worked at Top Knotch clothing store and was being recruited by a prostitution ring run out of the store that also served as an unlicensed underage nightclub. She charged that pimps were “targeting the daughters of judges and law enforcement” to recruit them into prostitution. Andress-Tobiasson said she had to go to the FBI with the information after being ignored by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department — which resulted in officers investigating her for allegedly breaching judicial rules by making an allegation to federal agents. The trial of Judge Andress-Tobiasson’s alleged conduct was dropped after she decided to quit in 2021.
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Andress-Tobiasson resigned from her position, not because of any wrongdoing, but because she was ‘terrorized’ by the Nevada Judicial Discipline Commission (JDC) and spent more than $600,000 in legal fees combating the JDC’s a complaint against her, filed in 2018, weeks after she publicly alleged that Las Vegas Metropolitan Police were protecting some pimps and their prostitutes while targeting their competition. At the time, the FBI was investigating similar allegations involving Metro’s vice unit.
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Andress-Tobiasson said that he daughter was afraid of Shane Valentine who ran the store. Valentine is linked to the murders of Sydney Land, 21, and Nehemiah ‘Neo’ Kauffman, 20, months later. The former judge began investigating the murder case and communicated with the mother of the dead girl and on one occasion she “went to Shane Valentine’s house and kicked in the door.”
Nevada Current: https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2021/04/30/judge-says-resignation-not-because-of-any-wrongdoing/
Baltimore Post Examiner: https://baltimorepostexaminer.com/las-vegas-sex-trafficker-who-is-suspect-in-unsolved-double-homicide-threatened-victims-weeks-before-the-murders/2019/02/04
