Las Vegas Strip resort sued over man's fentanyl overdose demise

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The widow of a person who died in a Las Vegas Strip resort room is suing the property proprietor, accusing it of permitting a recognized pimp and intercourse employee on its property, resulting in her husband’s overdose demise.

Jeffrey Jacoby, 55, of Colorado, died in March 2023 from the results of fentanyl and ethanol, paperwork mentioned. Paramedics and police discovered Jacoby deceased inside a toilet in a visitor room on the Palazzo resort. Each Jacoby’s pockets and telephone have been lacking from his room.

In 2024, Kashon Glass, 38; and Cheylee Kessee, 24, took plea offers on expenses linked to Jacoby’s demise. Each admitted guilt to expenses together with theft and voluntary manslaughter. Final November, Clark County District Court docket Decide Jacqueline Bluth sentenced Glass to a minimal of 20 years in jail. Bluth sentenced Kessee to a minimal of eight years.

Video surveillance from the hours earlier than Jacoby’s demise confirmed he and Kessee strolling across the resort collectively, court docket paperwork mentioned. Paperwork reveal Kessee and Glass shared textual content messages about Jacoby’s actions and robbing him earlier than Jacoby and Kessee went to Jacoby’s resort room, prosecutors mentioned.

Police arrested Kessee a number of days later throughout a intercourse employee enforcement operation at a special Strip property, paperwork mentioned. Throughout an interview with police, Kessee mentioned she and Jacoby smoked fentanyl collectively earlier than his demise. Police later arrested Glass with fentanyl.

The lawsuit alleges that “defendants had knowledge of Kessee and Glass’ history of targeting hotel guests to rob and victimize them” and failed to guard Jacoby, paperwork mentioned. As well as, the lawsuit claims safety “made no effort” to take away Glass or Kessee from the property.

Along with Jacoby’s demise, Glass and Kessee confronted expenses for quite a few different robberies, together with one the place police discovered a number of weapons hidden in a rest room.

The lawsuit asks for a jury trial and a typical $15,000 in damages, the statutory minimal in civil circumstances.

Representatives from the resort didn’t instantly return a request for remark.