Aquarius Casino Resort Murder Defendants Reportedly Fail To Show Up for Court
Two defendants both supercharged inwards a July slaying at Nevada’s Aquarius Casino Resort allegedly failed to turn of events up for a scheduled courtroom coming into court last week. The audition was rescheduled for Feb. 24 inwards Laughlin, Nev. Justice Court.
Neither Julio Ceasar Arrezola Rodriguez, 47, nor David Cruz, 45, appeared either inward individual or past the cyberspace for the scheduled hearing, Mohave Valley Daily News, a local newspaper, reported. Both are out on bond.
Their attorneys and lawyers from the dominion attorney’s office staff both showed upwards at Laughlin Justice Margaret Court shoemaker's last week. Justice of the Peace Pro Tem Kyle Morrison Remick Waite chose to preserve the preliminary hearing.
Each of the defendants is charged with open up murder.
The expiry took localise during a July 30 fight at Aquarius the Water Bearer Casino. The scrimmage started as a verbal argument. It grew into a physical opposition on the Laughlin casino’s gaming floor.
Violent Death
The two suspects allegedly hit, kicked, and stomped on Alejo Jack Areyan after he drop to the strand and and then remained motionless. Areyan kept on getting beaten, police said.
Areyan’s injuries left hand him unconscious. He later succumbed to the injuries, according to the Daily News. He was pronounced idle at Western AZ Regional Medical Center inwards Bullhead City. An postmortem concluded Areyan died from blunt ram head trauma. The Mohave County medical examiner’s business office said his decease was a homicide.
Cruz was remanded into custody on Aug. 26. Rodriguez was arrested on Nov. 18. Cruz’s $250,000 bail was posted on Sept. 21. Rodriguez was released on bail on or before Dec. 2. The amount of his bail bond was non immediately available.
Even though Laughlin is some 75 miles south-east of Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Metro Police make jurisdiction o'er the city. LVMPD detectives handled the homicide investigation.
Relatives of Victim Angry Cruz Released
The fact that the court allow Cruz come out on bail bond angered the victim’s relatives last-place year.
The DA [Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Bishop Pesci] asked for bail bond to be denied. But the jurist granted bail. He should ne'er have been let out on bail,” Rosemary Flores, Areyan’s sister-in-law, told the Daily News in September.
Flores added that Areyan only if got involved in the incident to assist someone else. He and so got attacked, she adds.
Jasmine Arayan, Alejo Areyan’s daughter, further told the Daily News they need “to have the justness we deserve.”