LAS VEGAS (AP) — A lawyer who says she's in a relationship with a prison inmate client and provided him a cellphone behind bars has been indicted on felony charges.
Investigators accuse 36-year-old Alexis Plunkett of allowing 26-year-old Andrew Arevalo and another man to use her phone while in jail.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports Plunkett was indicted Thursday on 12 felony charges.
Arevalo, also indicted, and the other accused man, Rogelio Estrada, face charges alongside Plunkett.
Neither Plunkett nor her attorney Michael Becker could immediately be reached for comment.
Arevalo's lawyer in the case, Lisa Rasmussen, says her client maintains innocence. Estrada has not been indicted.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Jay P. Raman says prosecutors decided to take the case to a grand jury because there are multiple defendants and there was a lack of progress in negotiations.