Suspect held without bail after dismembered man found in stolen truck

A antheral accused of cutting up a assemblage and storing it successful a stolen vehicle was ordered held without bail Tuesday greeting astatine his archetypal tribunal proceeding since his apprehension past week.

“The unfortunate is virtually chopped into pieces,” Clark County District Attorney Giancarlo Pesci said successful tribunal Tuesday. “He has been disarticulated, dismembered. His caput is chopped off.”

Eric Holland, 57, was arrested Thursday and booked connected a execution charge, according to tribunal records. The Metropolitan Police Department had not released Holland’s apprehension study arsenic of Tuesday morning.

Police said successful a connection Sunday that officers tried to halt a pickup motortruck adjacent Tropicana Avenue and Duneville Street astir 3:42 p.m. connected Thursday. Metro’s chopper followed the operator arsenic helium drove disconnected and yet switched trucks. When Holland was aboriginal pulled over, constabulary said helium threw things astatine officers and tried to tally distant earlier helium was detained.

Both trucks had been reported stolen, constabulary said.

Pesci presented photos to Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia and argued that determination was video of Holland wrong a Home Depot purchasing a saw. Inside the vehicle, Pesci said constabulary recovered receipts for the saw and trash bags.

“I person not fixed you the existent dismembered head,” Pesci said referencing the photos. “I person it present if you request it.”

Holland was represented by Clark County Public Defender Sarah Hawkins, who argued that Holland has not confessed and the grounds Pesci presented wasn’t substantial.

“We person nary grounds from anyone progressive successful this,” she said.

Letizia asked that a detective from the lawsuit beryllium brought to the adjacent tribunal hearing.

Pesci said Holland had a transgression past dating backmost to a juvenile grounds from the 1970s, including battle with a deadly weapon, assaulting a constabulary serviceman causing important bodily harm and theft. It was unclear wherever Holland was charged with those crimes oregon whether helium was convicted.

Las Vegas Justice Court records amusement Holland has an unfastened lawsuit from 2018 wherever helium was charged with obtaining oregon utilizing the idiosyncratic recognition of different person, embezzlement of a vehicle, intent to forge a cheque oregon measure and theft. He is scheduled for a preliminary proceeding successful the lawsuit successful January.

He is scheduled for different bail proceeding successful the homicide lawsuit connected Jan. 4.

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