LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A dashing and uninsured motorbike rider accused of killing a girl on a mobility scooter was wished on a warrant and allegedly informed police he had consumed medicine earlier than the crash, in line with paperwork 8 Information Now obtained Thursday.
Darin McCuistion, 58, faces prices of DUI leading to loss of life and several other different prices related to the deadly crash from Friday, Oct. 3.
Round 8 p.m. that day, McCuistion, who was using a motorbike close to Torrey Pines Drive and Hyde Avenue, collided with Jodie Collins-Wells as she rode a mobility scooter, police mentioned. The crash occurred as Collins-Wells was crossing the street within the intersection.
McCuistion was using an unregistered bike and dashing at an estimated 85 mph earlier than the crash, police mentioned. The posted velocity restrict within the space is 25 mph.
McCuistion informed police he “injected methamphetamine and heroin into his leg,” earlier within the day, paperwork mentioned. The bike he was using is uninsured.
Police beforehand arrested McCuistion for DUI in 2003 and 2006, they mentioned. On the time of his arrest, a bench warrant was energetic in a housebreaking and grand larceny case from 2020, information mentioned.
That 12 months, prosecutors charged McCuistion after they mentioned he stole from a division retailer at Style Present Mall, paperwork mentioned. McCuistion later entered the Clark County District Courtroom’s drug program and prevented any jail time.
Data present a number of judges issued not less than 4 bench warrants for McCuistion’s arrest in his 2020 case, resulting in his termination from the drug court docket program in 2022. A decide most not too long ago filed a warrant for McCuistion’s arrest in 2023.
On account of violating the phrases of his sentence, a decide denied setting bail in McCuistion’s DUI-with-death case. Along with that cost, McCuistion faces prices of reckless driving, working an unregistered car, and failing to have proof of insurance coverage.
McCuistion was scheduled to make his preliminary look in Las Vegas Justice Courtroom on Oct. 13.
