LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A intercourse employee faces a homicide cost linked to a customer’s loss of life in a Las Vegas Strip resort room, the 8 Information Now Investigators have discovered.
Metro police arrested Heidi Warner, 23, on April 10 on second-degree homicide and drug costs, information stated.
In February 2024, an individual known as police to say she had not heard from her member of the family, Senaca Higley, 46, of Utah, who was staying at Caesars Palace, paperwork stated. The particular person additionally reported $2,400 was withdrawn from Higley’s checking account throughout the time of his disappearance.
Police suspect Higley died on the night of Feb. 23, 2024, paperwork stated. Nonetheless, resort safety didn’t uncover his physique within the resort room’s toilet till Feb. 25 with suspected fentanyl drugs in a plastic bag close by, paperwork stated. The Clark County coroner’s workplace later decided Higley died from fentanyl poisoning.
Higley, a father of a younger baby, additionally labored as an auctioneer, his obituary stated.
Metro’s forensic laboratory later examined the suspected fentanyl drugs, paperwork stated. The drugs examined optimistic for fentanyl and acetaminophen.
Police reviewed video from the resort, which confirmed Higley strolling to his room with an unknown lady. The girl, whose face was partially lined with a sweatshirt and hood, was later recorded on video leaving the room alone, police stated.
A member of the family later discovered a message on Higley’s cellphone the place he conversed with a girl, later recognized as Warner, about shopping for Adderall, paperwork stated. The girl later supplied to promote Higley a bootleg type of oxycodone.
Two weeks earlier than Higley’s loss of life, Warner pleaded no contest to trespass in an unrelated case, information stated. As a part of her sentence, a Las Vegas Justice Court docket choose ordered her to keep away from the Las Vegas Strip for six months. Information present Warner accomplished the court-ordered necessities, nonetheless, her most up-to-date arrest would point out she really violated the phrases.
Metro police detained Warner in April 2024 on a prostitution-related cost in Downtown Las Vegas, paperwork stated. Throughout that arrest, investigators seized Warner’s cellphone however they had been unable to entry its contents. Nonetheless, a choose later licensed a search warrant of Warner’s digital accounts.
Within the account, police stated they discovered Higley’s contact info saved underneath the identify of a distinct Strip property.
In August, police surveilled Warner outdoors of her condo, noting she was carrying comparable clothes to the lady within the video with Higley, paperwork stated. It was not till April 10 that police arrested Warner for allegedly offering the drugs that killed Higley.
Throughout Warner’s possible trigger listening to on April 11, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Choose Daniel Westmeyer denied setting bail. On April 15, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Choose Amy Chelini set bail at $75,000, information stated, after prosecutors requested for $150,000 and Hotter’s legal professional requested $10,000, information stated.
Ought to Warner put up bond, Chelini ordered her to put on a monitoring bracelet and keep away from the Strip.
A preliminary listening to was scheduled for Could 21.
