LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Expenses have been filed in opposition to a person who accused the Metropolis of Las Vegas of getting “renegade city marshals” after he was pulled over and arrested for DUI.
Derek Myers, 32, was driving on I-11/US95 on Jan. 9, 2025, when two metropolis marshals, Jason Brooks and Sergio Guzman, pulled him over for alleged site visitors violations.
Felony expenses of DUI, reckless driving, and failure to supply proof of insurance coverage have been filed in opposition to Myers on June 9, after toxicology outcomes “confirmed the presence of impairing prescription medications and controlled substances in his system,” in accordance with a information launch from the Metropolis of Las Vegas.
A picture from the Metropolis of Las Vegas marshals’ body-worn cameras in the course of the arrest of Derek Myers on Jan. 9, 2025. (Credit score: Metropolis of Las Vegas)
Myers filed a federal lawsuit in March, accusing the town of “exceeding their law enforcement jurisdiction” and “infringing on the rights” of individuals. The swimsuit accuses the town marshals of conducting unlawful site visitors stops, searches, and arrests on property the place they don’t have any authority.
The information launch consists of video from the body-worn cameras of the 2 marshals who stopped Myers. It exhibits all the things from the site visitors cease to Myers being taken into custody following his subject sobriety exams, which the marshals mentioned he failed.
The Metropolis of Las Vegas did file a movement in Could to have Myers’ federal lawsuit dismissed.
An lawyer issued an announcement on behalf of Myers, which reads as follows:
“The City of Las Vegas faces almost certain exposure for millions of dollars in a federal civil rights class action case concerning hundreds if not thousands of persons wrongfully detained and arrested by City marshals clearly operating outside of their jurisdiction. Today, the City of Las Vegas incredibly filed DUI criminal charges against Mr. Myers over his arrest several months earlier. In reviewing the criminal complaint, it is apparent that instead of implicating my client, the toxicology results the City has (which the City still will not provide to us) exonerate Mr. Myers of any impaired driving and showed no alcohol, marijuana or hard drugs in Mr. Myers’ system. Seemingly out of spite, the City proceeded to charge Mr. Myers regardless of these results in a forum where he will not receive a jury trial by his peers. He was charged for having minor amounts of an anti-depressants taken 12 or more hours prior to his arrest. Under the statutory section used by the City, they could argue that anyone drinking several cups of coffee is under the influence or impairment of too much caffeine and file charges against them for impaired driving. The City had to use a vague, subjective standard for impairment to make themselves look righteous because the actual toxicology results establish Mr. Myers did not have a blood alcohol level of any drug actually in excess of any statutorily-defined limits. The City could probably arrest thousands of people daily for having minor amounts of antidepressants in their system but, of course, they have charged only the man who stood up for his rights and filed a class action lawsuit against them. The City’s actions are, in short, reprehensible and there is no doubt that any person that had not filed a multi-million dollar civil case against the City would never have been charged. Mr. Myers was a safety threat to no one that evening except the rogue City marshals. Shame on the City for its actions today.”
