LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – A choose issued a warrant for a lady accused of giving a person fentanyl, leaving him to die in a Las Vegas lodge room, and stealing his automotive and debit card to buy groceries, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
A Clark County grand jury indicted Cori Lynn Perkins in reference to the overdose demise of Ricardo Ortiz on Could 1, 2024, based on court docket paperwork.
Clark County District Court docket Chief Decide Jerry Wiese issued the warrant and set bail at $1 million Thursday morning.
Perkins is charged with 15 felony counts, together with second-degree homicide whereas failing to render or search medical help for an individual injured or killed by way of a managed substance, administration of a drug to assist within the fee of a felony, residential housebreaking, housebreaking of a motorcar, grand larceny auto, theft, 5 counts of use of a credit score or debit card, and 4 counts of housebreaking of a enterprise.
Clark County Deputy District Legal professional James Puccinelli referred to as the allegations “particularly egregious.”
Ortiz was discovered stripped bare and useless in a lodge room after a name for service was made about an overdose on the Rio Lodge, based on Puccinelli.
Ortiz’s pockets was emptied, Puccinelli stated.
Detectives reviewed surveillance video which confirmed Ortiz and Perkins getting into the lodge room on the 18th ground, Perkins leaving alone, after which getting into Ortiz’s mom’s gold Nissan Sentra, based on Puccinelli.
Perkins spent greater than $2,000 with Ortiz’s debit card at companies together with Smith’s Grocery, Goal, Sprouts, Walmart, and Pizza Hut, based on the indictment.
Perkins confessed to the homicide and stated she supplied the fentanyl for Ortiz to smoke and ingest, based on Puccinelli.
Puccinelli referred to as Perkins a “danger to the community,” as he defined she targets people on the Las Vegas Strip to present them fentanyl after which take their belongings, and within the present case, she didn’t try to hunt or render medical help for the sufferer.
As of Thursday afternoon, it appeared Perkins was not but in custody.
If Perkins posts bail after her arrest, she shall be required to adjust to high-level digital monitoring.
Perkins has a historical past in Las Vegas Justice Court docket, based on data. She pleaded responsible to drug prices in circumstances in 2013 and 2014 and acquired no jail time, data present.
