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A lot of people think when they come here to Las Vegas,
that the night clubs are a really tolerant and permissive
environment where anything goes.
And so, it's not uncommon that people bring narcotics
in with them to the nightclubs.
Most people will try to be discreet
when they use narcotics.
So they'll go to the bathroom, thinking
that if they go into a bathroom stall, that they're safe.
But that's not really true.
We've seen, with some frequency in clubs like Tao or Pure,
that security will follow people into the bathroom,
that they'll wait outside, that if the person lingers
too long in the bathroom stall, if more than one person goes
into the bathroom stall, if they hear sniffing or other sounds
or smells associated with consumption of drugs,
they'll stop the person on the way out.
They'll grab them.
They may ask for consent to search them.
They may simply reach into their pockets and grab something.
And ultimately, they'll hand them over to Metro
for prosecution.
So it's really important to know that the night clubs are not
a very tolerant environment in Las Vegas for consumption
of narcotics, that security is very much involved
in trying to find people, catch people, and detain people
for consumption of narcotics, that they will hand you over
to local law enforcement for prosecution.
The good news is that for somebody
who's come to Las Vegas, who otherwise does not
have a significant criminal history, that was coming
to have a good time, was possessing
drug quantities normally associated
with personal consumption, we can very often
get these charges reduced to a simple possession
and sometimes even have the charges dismissed.