LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas lady, who prosecutors say was overwhelmed practically to dying by her former on line casino flooring supervisor, has filed a lawsuit towards Virgin Resorts accusing the corporate of negligence.
Fausto Pozuelo Sarria, 43, was sentenced on September 2024 to a two-year jail sentence for battery with a lethal weapon. His sufferer Nichole Roberts, 38, stated she suffers from complications, vertigo, and Submit-Traumatic Stress Dysfunction. Her life modified on July 15, 2024.
“I will always remember that day,” Roberts stated. “What [my family and friends] were going to think about me dying. I was mostly thinking that they were going to be disappointed that I let this happen to me with this guy.”
Pozuelo Sarria, who was desk video games flooring supervisor at Virgin Resorts, confirmed up at Roberts’s dwelling on the morning of July 15, 2024. Roberts was a card seller at Virgin Resorts. The 2 started relationship inside weeks after she began in January of 2024.
Nevertheless, Roberts stated she ended the connection after studying of his drug issues. Roberts had filed an HR grievance that finally led to his firing.
“On some level, I still almost feel bad for him that he got fired, and then I feel crazy because he tried to kill me for it,” Roberts stated.
Pozuelo Sarria hit her over the pinnacle with a wine bottle a number of occasions, punched her repeatedly, and choked her to the purpose the place she blacked out.
He pleaded responsible a month after the assault in August. At his sentencing on Sept. 23, Clark County prosecutors stated Roberts was fortunate to have survived.
“This is a situation where this is a clear attempt murder. The defendant pled to a battery with a deadly weapon, but ultimately that’s a gift for him, because he’s lucky that she was able to stand here today and speak,” Clark County Chief Deputy District Lawyer Sarah Overly stated.
Clark County District Court docket Decide Ronald Israel sentenced Pozuelo Sarria to a two-to-10-year jail sentence.
Pozuelo Sarria apologized to Roberts for practically killing her.
“What I did to the victim was wrong. My behavior was unacceptable and for that, I apologize,” Pozuelo Sarria stated. He’s at the moment incarcerated on the Southern Desert Correctional Heart.
He admitted to abusing medication on the time he assaulted Roberts.
Roberts stated staff at Virgin Resorts knew of his drug use, however ignored it, which is why she filed a civil lawsuit final November towards the lodge looking for $5 million in damages.
“Their negligence and ignoring all of these little factors made it so I almost got murdered,” she stated.
She hasn’t returned to work at Virgin Resorts for the reason that assault. Virgin Resorts has sought to get Nichole Roberts’ lawsuit dismissed, however a Clark County District Court docket Decide has refused. A jury trial is scheduled for Aug. of 2026.
The lodge has not responded to eight Information Now’s previous requests for a touch upon this lawsuit.
