Ex-firefighter pleads guilty to manslaughter in wife’s OD death

A erstwhile North Las Vegas firefighter charged with execution successful his wife’s overdose decease pleaded blameworthy Friday to involuntary manslaughter.

Police person accused 33-year-old Christopher Candito of causing his wife, 25-year-old Tiffany Slatsky, to overdose by giving her morphine astatine the couple’s Henderson location connected Feb. 23, 2020. He was indicted successful August connected charges of second-degree execution and burglary.

Candito besides is accused of stealing Narcan, an opioid-overdose antidote, from a North Las Vegas occurrence presumption to springiness to Slatsky erstwhile she began showing overdose symptoms.

According to grand assemblage testimony, Henderson constabulary and Drug Enforcement Administration agents were probing substance messages astir suspected cause transactions betwixt Candito and 2 different firefighters, including a erstwhile captain.

The texts besides showed messages astir a drug-fueled enactment attended by respective North Las Vegas firefighters astatine the Golden Nugget 2 days earlier Slatsky’s death, according to tribunal records.

Henderson constabulary accused Candito of purchasing morphine, ecstasy, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, oxycodone, ketamine and Xanax successful 2019 to administer astatine the Golden Nugget party, which happened connected Feb. 21, 2020, according to his apprehension report.

Candito and Slatsky attended the party, drinking and consuming morphine capsules, which led to her overdose, the study said.

The Clark County coroner’s bureau said Slatsky died from aggregate cause intoxication. The drugs included ecstasy, morphine and cocaine.

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