LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A intercourse employee faces a homicide cost related to a customer’s dying in a Las Vegas Strip resort room, the 8 Information Now Investigators have realized.
Metro police arrested Heidi Warner, 23, on April 10 on second-degree homicide and drug expenses, information mentioned.
In February 2024, an individual referred to as police to say she had not heard from her member of the family, Senaca Higley, 46, of Utah, who was staying at Caesars Palace, paperwork mentioned. The particular person additionally reported $2,400 was withdrawn from Higley’s checking account through the time of his disappearance.
Police suspect Higley died on the night of Feb. 23, 2024, paperwork mentioned. Nonetheless, resort safety didn’t uncover his physique within the resort room’s toilet till Feb. 25 with suspected fentanyl capsules in a plastic bag close by, paperwork mentioned. The Clark County coroner’s workplace later decided Higley died from fentanyl poisoning.
Higley, a father of a younger little one, additionally labored as an auctioneer, his obituary mentioned.
Metro’s forensic laboratory later examined the suspected fentanyl capsules, paperwork mentioned. The capsules examined optimistic for fentanyl and acetaminophen.
Police reviewed video from the resort, which confirmed Higley strolling to his room with an unknown girl. The lady, whose face was partially coated with a sweatshirt and hood, was later recorded on video leaving the room alone, police mentioned.
A member of the family later discovered a message on Higley’s cellphone the place he conversed with a girl, later recognized as Warner, about shopping for Adderall, paperwork mentioned. The lady later provided to promote Higley a bootleg type of oxycodone.
Two weeks earlier than Higley’s dying, Warner pleaded no contest to trespass in an unrelated case, information mentioned. As a part of her sentence, a Las Vegas Justice Court docket choose ordered her to avoid the Las Vegas Strip for six months. Information present Warner accomplished the court-ordered necessities, nevertheless, her most up-to-date arrest would point out she truly violated the phrases.
Metro police detained Warner in April 2024 on a prostitution-related cost in Downtown Las Vegas, paperwork mentioned. Throughout that arrest, investigators seized Warner’s cellphone however they had been unable to entry its contents. Nonetheless, a choose later approved a search warrant of Warner’s digital accounts.
Within the account, police mentioned they discovered Higley’s contact data saved underneath the identify of a unique Strip property.
In August, police surveilled Warner exterior of her house, noting she was carrying comparable clothes to the girl within the video with Higley, paperwork mentioned. It was not till April 10 that police arrested Warner for allegedly offering the capsules that killed Higley.
Throughout Warner’s possible trigger listening to on April 11, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Decide Daniel Westmeyer denied setting bail. On April 15, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Decide Amy Chelini set bail at $75,000, information mentioned, after prosecutors requested for $150,000 and Hotter’s legal professional requested $10,000, information mentioned.
Ought to Warner publish bond, Chelini ordered her to put on a monitoring bracelet and avoid the Strip.
A preliminary listening to was scheduled for Might 21.
