3 suspected of torturing, throwing man off cliff near Pahrump

Nye County investigators judge a Las Vegas antheral was beaten, thrown disconnected a cliff and changeable due to the fact that a pistillate believed that the antheral had wounded her child.

Roy Jaggers, 27, of Las Vegas was recovered dormant Sunday successful Cathedral Canyon, adjacent Pahrump, according to Nye County Sheriff’s Office deputies.

Investigators from the Metropolitan Police Department and the Sheriff’s Office spoke to Jaggers’ parent who said the past idiosyncratic helium was successful interaction with was a neighbour named Heather Pate, 27, of Las Vegas.

Deputies said that aft detaining Pate and her boyfriend, Kevin Dent, 36, of Las Vegas they discovered grounds that Pate and Dent lured Jaggers to Pate’s home, believing helium had wounded Pate’s child.

The brace bushed and handcuffed Jaggers earlier driving him to Pahrump wherever they met up with Pate’s erstwhile fellow Brad Mehn, 37, of Pahrump, deputies said.

“They met Mehn who led them to an country successful the godforsaken wherever they tortured Jaggers implicit aggregate hours, utilizing galore antithetic weapons,” the Sheriff’s Office said successful a video connection Thursday night. “After they finished torturing Jaggers, they drove him to Cathedral Canyon, astir 25 miles away, wherever they threw him disconnected the cliff into the gorge wherever they subsequently changeable astatine him galore times, yet sidesplitting him.”

Jaggers was determined to person died from aggregate gunshots.

The trio is being held without bail connected charges of murder, kidnapping, conspiracy to perpetrate execution and artillery with important bodily harm.

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