Man arrested at Burning Man site faces charges of sexual assault, false imprisonment

A man arrested by Pershing County Sheriff's deputies at the Burning Man site on Thursday faces charges of sexual assault and false imprisonment. Oleg Gennadievich Ivanov currently is in custody at the Pershing County Jail with a bail set at $152,500, according to Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen. Sexual assault is a category A felony, the most serious type of felony under Nevada law. Sexual assault is defined as when one person forces sexual penetration upon another under Nevada law. False imprisonment, a category B felony, is the confinement or detention of someone without legal authority. The victim provided an account of the incident and a description of the suspect, as well as the suspect's location. Burning Man officially begins at midnight, Sunday, though Burning Man Project staff, volunteers and artists have been on site already for a month...MORE