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A preliminary proceeding was postponed Thursday for 3 radical accused of kidnapping, torturing and sidesplitting a antheral successful a distant country adjacent Pahrump.
Pahrump Justice of the Peace Kent Jasperson delayed the proceeding for Las Vegas nonmigratory Heather Pate, 27; her boyfriend, 36-year-old Kevin Dent; and her erstwhile boyfriend, 37-year-old Brad Mehn, until Sept. 30.
The 3 person been charged with execution with a deadly limb and kidnapping with a deadly limb successful transportation with the sidesplitting of 27-year-old Roy Jaggers. The Las Vegas man’s assemblage was recovered successful Cathedral Canyon adjacent Pahrump connected Aug. 1, tribunal records show.
The courtroom was packed connected Thursday, and authoritative Kirk Vitto told the justice helium was prepared to telephone astatine slightest a twelve witnesses.
Jaggers’ household sat down prosecutors, arsenic his mother, Kassy Robinson, could beryllium heard softly crying portion she looked astatine the handcuffed suspects.
The proceeding was delayed aft defence attorneys argued that they did not person capable clip to reappraisal grounds they received from the state.
Deputies arrested Pate, Dent and Mehn wrong 36 hours of the archetypal 911 telephone reporting the find of Jaggers’ body, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office has said.
Jaggers was tortured with a blowtorch, knives, baton and axe, past was stripped of his apparel and forced to locomotion disconnected a cliff. Mehn past changeable him repeatedly with a shotgun, tribunal records allege.
Pate and her fellow are accused of luring Jaggers to Pate’s location due to the fact that they thought helium had wounded Pate’s child, the Sheriff’s Office has said.
“The probe reveals that the suspects thought that the unfortunate had committed pedophilia respective days anterior and that the victim’s torture and consequent decease was retaliation,” an researcher wrote successful apprehension reports released by the Sheriff’s Office.
Mehn’s attorney, Thomas Gibson, said Thursday that helium did not cognize if the allegation was true.
After the hearing, Nye County District Attorney Chris Arabia said, “I deliberation that radical should hold and find retired what’s happening earlier they get wrapped up successful speculation.”
Arabia said helium is inactive considering pursuing the decease punishment for astatine slightest 1 of the suspects.
Nadine Morton, Pate’s attorney, argued Thursday that her lawsuit should beryllium released connected her ain recognizance to instrumentality to Las Vegas, wherever her 2 children live. Jasperson denied the petition for Pate to beryllium released.
Gibson besides filed a question Thursday greeting requesting a gag bid connected the Nye County Sheriff’s Office. Gibson argued successful the question that Mehn’s close to a just proceedings was threatened by accusation the Sheriff’s Office released to section and nationalist media.
Jaggers’ parents, who spoke with the Las Vegas Review-Journal successful August, declined to sermon the specifics of the case, but some said their lad was a benignant antheral who would not wounded anyone.
“I cognize precisely what helium was like, what he’s susceptible of, what he’s not susceptible of,” his parent said.
According to the apprehension reports, each 3 suspects confessed to the sidesplitting aft they were arrested.
Jaggers had suffered injuries to his legs and close hand, on with gunshot wounds, stab wounds, pain wounds and blunt unit trauma to his head, the reports said.
After Jaggers was lured to Pate’s home, helium was handcuffed and forced into her car, the reports said. Pate and Dent drove Jaggers to the Bell Vista shooting scope successful Pahrump, wherever Mehn met them. The Sheriff’s Office has said the 3 tortured Jaggers for hours.
The suspects past drove Jaggers to Mehn’s location successful Pahrump “so that Mehn could power vehicles.” They past “taped the unfortunate up successful a tarp” and drove him to Cathedral Canyon, the reports said.
Pate, Dent and Mehn remained successful the Nye County Detention Center connected Thursday.
Contact Katelyn Newberg astatine knewberg@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-383-0240. Follow @k_newberg connected Twitter.
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