LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The lady who burglarized a funeral residence, eradicating a casket with a physique inside after which dumping the stays, will keep away from jail time and as an alternative enter a court-ordered drug remedy program, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Patricia Sierra, 47, initially confronted expenses together with grand larceny, housebreaking of a enterprise, and eradicating, reworking or disturbing human stays, paperwork mentioned. Sierra pleaded responsible to at least one depend of housebreaking as a part of a plea settlement signed Sept. 24.
As a part of the plea deal, Sierra agreed to enter Clark County District Court docket’s drug courtroom program and obtain probation, paperwork mentioned. The specialised program requires a defendant to enter remedy, be tracked with digital monitoring and obtain random drug testing,
Clark County District Court docket Choose Tara Clark Newberry sentenced Sierra to this system on Dec. 5. Ought to Sierra violate probation, she must serve at the least a 12 months in jail, paperwork mentioned.
On Aug. 27 round 3 a.m., an individual known as police to report a physique mendacity face down in entrance of the Reasonably priced Cremation and Burial Service funeral residence on Charleston Boulevard close to Rancho Drive. Police mentioned the deceased particular person arrived on the facility on Aug. 20 and had a viewing the day earlier than the housebreaking.
Video surveillance from the enterprise confirmed a girl, whom police later recognized as Sierra, breaking a window and unlocking the funeral residence’s entrance door, paperwork mentioned. The video then exhibits Sierra strolling to the viewing room and carrying the casket out the entrance door. Police mentioned the physique within the casket ended up mendacity in landscaping in entrance of the enterprise.
Sierra remained in custody Monday whereas awaiting her first look within the drug courtroom program.
