William Derr, 40, was sentenced in Fifth District Court Friday, Nov. 2, to five months of jail time for a misdemeanor charge of battery.

Derr was arrested last March after becoming a suspect in two separate sexual assaults and one attempted assault that occurred throughout the valley last March and April.

He appeared in court last Friday for his involvement in the attempted assault that occurred at the Valley Bar April 1.

Derr, however, took the stand and testified that he had not once been to the Valley Bar during his three-year residency in Pahrump.

Wendy Segovia, the victim, testified that she was exiting the bar at about 8:30 p.m. and talking to two gentlemen outside when "we got into an altercation outside the bar.

"He hit me three times," Segovia said. "I had a big lump on my forehead."

Beverly Armantino, the victim's mother and the bartender at the bar, testified to seeing her daughter with the men and later "saw two men around her yelling and screaming at her."

"I didn't see who hit her," Armantino said.

When Derr took the stand and testified in his own defense, however, he told a drastically different story of the events that occurred on that fateful April Fool's Day.

The defendant told the court that during the time of the incident he worked as a plumber and was working in Las Vegas at the Venetian, re-modeling a tower of suites.

He said that a friend would pick him up and take him to work around 10 a.m. and would finish work around 6 p.m., thus not returning to Pahrump until later on.

Derr also said that he had never gone to the Valley Bar and knew neither the victim nor her mother.

The defendant gave a detailed account of his activities that day, saying he remembered them because he had played an April Fool's Day prank on his supervisor.

After work he went to his fiancée's house where, according to him, he watched his children.

Prosecutor Kirk Vitto, however, pointed out that Derr had been incarcerated for five months but apparently could not have the friend who drove him to work that day available to testify in court.

In addition, Vitto pointed out that Derr's employer sign-in sheet, which would have confirmed his alibi, was also not evident.

Derr is scheduled to appear in court again Nov. 20 for charges he is facing for two other separate assaults.

He is being charged with sexual assault and first-degree kidnapping for an incident that occurred at the VFW post March 7 in which a woman was found bound with "zip" ties in back of the building after being assaulted.

Derr will also be answering to additional charges of first-degree kidnapping, sexual assault, battery with intent to commit a crime, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted sexual assault, and three counts of unlawful use of controlled substance for an assault that occurred three days after the VFW incident.