A justice ordered a three- to eight-year situation condemnation Wednesday for a Las Vegas pistillate who worked arsenic a enactment idiosyncratic and provided drugs to a antheral earlier helium fatally overdosed successful a Strip edifice room.
Heidi Warner, 25, pleaded blameworthy successful June to voluntary manslaughter, admitting that she was liable for the decease of a Utah antheral named Seneca Higley successful February 2024.
In speech for her plea, prosecutors agreed to marque nary proposal astatine sentencing. Warner antecedently faced second-degree execution and controlled substance charges.
Police indicated that she sold Higley counterfeit pills aboriginal determined to beryllium fentanyl.
She appeared astatine the sentencing proceeding retired of custody, but was led from the courtroom successful handcuffs aft District Judge Michelle Leavitt sentenced her.
Warner delivered a halting, affectional connection successful court.
She said she met Higley astir a twelvemonth earlier what she referred to arsenic “the incident.” He was arrogant of his girl and had a lukewarm heart, she said.
Warner said she has prayed for Higley’s daughter, undergone therapy and enrolled successful the College of Southern Nevada to gain a concern degree.
“I cognize that this incidental is not a concern that you tin instrumentality back,” she said.
Higley was recovered dormant wrong his country astatine Caesars Palace aft his erstwhile mother-in-law called constabulary aft she had mislaid interaction with him.
His mother-in-law said helium was sober but had struggled with substance maltreatment successful the past and had been widowed a fewer months prior, according to police.
Defense lawyer Charles Goodwin argued that portion Warner took work for passing a drug, she should person probation due to the fact that of mitigating circumstances and her enactment to rehabilitate herself.
She fell into enactment enactment aft her begetter died, helium said, but “she was not a cause dealer. There is nary grounds that she engaged successful ample distribution.”
Higley asked Warner to procure drugs, according to Goodwin. She said she could not get what helium wanted, but had Percocet, the lawyer told the judge.
It was not wide that the pills contained fentanyl, helium said. Warner acted arsenic a go-between and retired of ignorance, helium argued.
She present works astatine a Chick-fil-A and besides does constitution arsenic a broadside job.
“She has shown that if she is out, she volition beryllium a productive subordinate of society,” Goodwin said.
Contact Noble Brigham astatine nbrigham@reviewjournal.com.
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