Dethroned Beauty Queen Thrown in Jail

Feb. 6, 2008— -- Las Vegas police stopped her around 3 a.m., a dethroned Nevada beauty queen, who landed in jail after the routine traffic stop escalated into an arrest.

Katherine "Katie" Rees, 23, was booked at the Clark County detention center early this morning on five charges, according to a release from Officer Bill Cassell, spokesman for the Las Vegas Police Department.

The charges included basic speed, driving with a suspended license, operating a motor vehicle with suspended plates, no proof of insurance, operating a vehicle with expired plates, and resisting arrest.

"During the stop, she became physically aggressive towards the officer, and was ultimately arrested," Cassell wrote in the release. Authorities said no additional information was available about the arrest.

Rees made scandalous headlines in December 2006, shortly before she was expected to represent Nevada in the Miss USA 2007 pageant, when salacious photos of her surfaced. The photos featured Rees in sexually suggestive positions, including simulated oral sex and a lesbian lip lock with a friend at a Florida club.

Miss USA co-owner Donald Trump was not nearly as gentle on Rees as he had been with Miss USA 2006, Tara Connor, after reports of her hard partying ways — which included allegations of cocaine use — surfaced.

Trump issued a controversial pardon of Connor, but with Rees, he delivered a trademark firing, stripping her of her Miss Nevada crown and the chance to win the Miss USA 2007 contest.

The celebrity news Web site TMZ.com posted the full spread of Rees images in January 2007. In August 2007, she appeared on a "Dr. Phil" episode entitled "Caught in the Act." She told the television therapist that she was the victim of a double standard, because Connor had gotten a second chance and she had not.

"They're just pictures," she said in the interview. "I didn't hurt anybody."

Rees told ABC News in July that the standards today are more difficult for contestants, but that they can still set good examples.

"If you ask me, a role model is someone who may have made mistakes in the past, and may have done things that they are not proud of, but they have prevailed and overcome that," she said.