‘Get home safe’: Las Vegas mother warns of DUI dangers after son’s death

Mariana Rico, mother of Roberto Angel Navarro Rico, spoke publicly about the dangers of driving under the influence after her son’s death in a July 31 crash in Las Vegas. Roberto, 28, was riding in the backseat of a 2025 Nissan Altima with two friends—Jakari Miles, 22, and Kosmas Sanchez, 23—when the vehicle collided with a legally parked Volvo semi‑truck. According to the Metropolitan Police Department, the Altima was traveling northbound on Highland Drive at 56 mph in a 35 mph zone. The impact occurred just south of Edna Avenue at approximately 9:10 a.m. Police said Sanchez informed investigators that the trio had just left Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club, located at 3340 S. Highland Drive, and were en route to the Circa building. Miles and Sanchez survived the crash; Roberto was pronounced dead at the scene. Miles’ blood‑alcohol content measured between 0.20 percent and 0.21 percent after the collision, well above Nevada’s legal limit of 0.08 percent. Clark County official Dallin Albright confirmed the result. Miles faces charges of DUI and reckless driving causing death and is scheduled to appear in court next week. Mariana Rico recalled her son as a creative and quiet young man who enjoyed drawing and spending time with his cousins and younger sister. She issued the following warnings, preserving her exact wording: “There’s a batch of options to get location safe,” the parent said. “I conscionable privation to get that retired determination to beryllium safe, beryllium cautious with the friends you’re with, and instrumentality an Uber.” “Don’t instrumentality it arsenic is if a person tells you, ‘I’m OK, I tin drive,’” Mariana Rico said. “If lone helium knew his person was drinking that much, which I cognize helium said helium wasn’t and that helium was OK to drive.” “He was precise humble, precise sweet,” she said. “It’s been a tragedy. I’m conscionable trying to instrumentality it time by day. It’s inactive unreal erstwhile I deliberation astir it.”