- Kayla Farzaneh-Simmons, 28, was pulled over by police on January 7 in Spring Valley, Nevada
- She was charged with misdemeanor DUI and reckless driving and was released
- Farzaneh-Simmons was hired by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office in December 2022
A glamorous Las Vegas Deputy District Attorney has been hit with a misdemeanor DUI and reckless driving charge after she was clocked driving 75mph in a 35pmh zone.
Kayla Farzaneh-Simmons, 28, was driving her white KIA SUV on Sunset Road around 5pm January 7 before she was stopped by Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officer near Rainbow Boulevard in Spring Valley- about 10 miles form Las Vegas.
Farzaneh-Simmons had three passengers with her in the vehicle at the time and she declined to take a sobriety test after the officer smelled a strong smell of alcohol on her.
‘While assisting Farzaneh-Simmons into the back of my patrol vehicle, she appeared to almost fall and I went to assist her. I advised her I thought she was going to fall for a second, and she responded, “I am not that drunk, I promise,”‘ the officer wrote in a report.
Kayla Farzaneh-Simmons, 28, was charged with misdemeanor DUI and reckless driving on January 7 in Spring Valley, Nevada. She had three passengers in the car and the police report stated that her vehicle had a ‘strong odor’ of alcohol
The Deputy District Attorney was hired by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office in December 2022.
Clark County spokesman Erik Pappa told DailyMail.com that Farzaneh-Simmons is still employed at the office.
The police report added the cop ‘immediately observed that the driver has watery and slightly bloodshot eyes.’
When asked if she could identify herself, the officer said that Farzaneh-Simmons ‘spoke with slightly slurred speech’ and that he noticed a ‘strong odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage coming from the vehicle.’
After the officer asked her how much she had to drink, the DA said: ‘Not much at all,’ before she declined to perform a field sobriety test.
Farzaneh-Simmons was hired as a Deputy District Attorney by the Clark County District Attorney’s Office in December 2022. DailyMail.com has confirmed that she is still employed with the office
She later agreed to submit a voluntary blood sample at the request of the police, but the results have not yet been released.
Farzaneh-Simmons was released from Clark County Detention Center and is due in court on May 6, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
According to her LinkedIn profile, Farzaneh-Simmons was previously employed as a part-time bartender from December 2020 to 2021. She was then employed at another bar from April 2022 to 2023.
She then moved on to work as a Judicial Extern at the Eighth Judicial District Court before she took a job as a Civil Law Self-Help Center Law Clerk before she entered her Deputy DA position.
According to an online registry, she got married in August 2023.
