‘Tragic and offensive:’ Man faces drug, porn charges after Summerlin teen’s death

Daniella Young’s parents archetypal noticed thing suspicious erstwhile their 13-year-old daughter’s telephone tracker turned off.

The mates were astatine dinner, records show, truthful they texted the girl. She told them she was astatine a parkland a half-mile from her Summerlin home.

When her parents returned location astatine 10 p.m. connected Oct. 12, she wasn’t there. They recovered Daniella, an eighth grader astatine Sig Rogich Middle School, astatine the parkland and brought her home.

At 8 a.m. the adjacent day, Jason Young texted his girl to inquire if she was acceptable for school. She didn’t respond, truthful helium went upstairs to her bedroom, wherever helium recovered her slumped implicit the nightstand, adjacent to pressed pills that constabulary judge were laced with the almighty opioid fentanyl. Her tegument was blue.

The Clark County coroner’s bureau pronounced her dormant astatine the location astatine 10:35 a.m. Her origin and mode of decease person not been determined, arsenic investigators await results from a toxicology test.

Meanwhile, a 32-year-old antheral is facing cause and pornography charges involving Daniella.

”The facts of this lawsuit are incredibly tragic and offensive,” Deputy District Attorney Eckley Keach said successful tribunal connected Thursday.

He called the defendant, Marcas Crowley, a “predator” who targeted young girls.

Daniella’s friends told constabulary that she had met Crowley implicit the messaging app Snapchat successful September. They besides said she was having enactment with him and that she would “trade enactment for narcotics due to the fact that she didn’t person a mode to wage for them,” according to a study from the Metropolitan Police Department.

Crowley was indicted Thursday connected six felony counts, including lewdness with a child, possession of ocular porn, permitting a insignificant to nutrient porn, kid abuse, cause transport and cause possession. His bail was acceptable astatine $100,000 with a information that if helium posts bail, helium is not allowed to interaction immoderate minors oregon person entree to the internet.

Snapchat cause sales

Police reports amusement that Crowley is among astatine slightest 4 radical arrested successful overdose deaths this twelvemonth who were accused of utilizing Snapchat to advertise cause sales.

“A batch of dealers thin to gravitate toward ephemeral societal media apps similar Snapchat due to the fact that those types of apps gives dealers the accidental to broadcast a broad advertisement successful the area,” Keach said. “It allows them to rapidly nonstop and delete messages connected those platforms.”

Snapchat allows users to “friend” anyone successful their adjacent area, oregon adhd usernames. Once 2 radical person go friends, they tin nonstop photos, videos and messages that disappear, typically aft 10 seconds. Users besides tin station stories, which vanish aft 24 hours.

“What I deliberation is troubling is these dealers cognize that there’s a imaginable marketplace of young users connected societal media,” Keach said. “They tin nonstop merchandise to these individuals who are often unaware of the risks associated with being drugs disconnected the street.”

Multiple attempts to scope Crowley’s attorney, Craig Mueller, for remark were unsuccessful.

Metro Sgt. Kenneth Rios wrote successful a connection to the Las Vegas Review-Journal connected Friday that helium powerfully encourages parents to show their child’s societal media accounts and advised that determination are apps that assistance adults bash so.

“Parental enactment tin assistance successful preventing their children from becoming victims of not lone narcotics, but besides different imaginable crimes,” helium wrote. “Prevention starts astatine home.”

An online obituary for Daniella was filled with dozens of posts sharing memories and blurry photos from her abbreviated life. Girls remembered trading clothes, teaching creation moves and sharing pizzas. Her grandma commented that their solemnisation of Jewish holidays would beryllium amiss without the child.

Some said they spent clip with Daniella astatine Lava Heights Academy successful Toquerville, Utah. The school’s website says it serves arsenic a residential attraction halfway for teenage girls struggling with intelligence and behavioral problems.

“She was specified a sweet, loving, highly intelligent young woman with emotion each around,” Martin Goldin wrote. “We volition ne'er cognize what she would person go successful her big life, what ambitions would person been fulfilled oregon what accomplishments she would person made nor the household she would person been portion of.”

‘She told him she was 17’

Daniella’s parents told constabulary that she had been caught successful the past trying to bargain medicine pills, and successful 2019, erstwhile her household confronted her astir utilizing marijuana, Daniella “threatened her household with a knife,” according to the constabulary report.

One of the parents, whose names were redacted successful the report, told constabulary that she had seen Crowley astatine her location before, and she thought helium was a juvenile. But she besides said she could not place him if she saw him again. She believed Crowley was bringing the miss nutrient oregon drugs, and erstwhile she asked Daniella however she paid for drugs, the miss told her that “she would not privation to know,” according to the constabulary report.

Detectives scoured Crowley’s Snapchat relationship aft determining that helium was the past idiosyncratic to talk to Daniella. Officers reported that betwixt Aug. 16 and Oct. 16, Crowley sent 71 Snapchat messages advertizing to his friends database that helium sold cocaine, ecstasy and Percocet, according to the apprehension report.

On Sept. 5, helium messaged Daniella “who request percs,” according to the constabulary report. She replied: “not (right now) but I’ll (hit you up) erstwhile I get money.” On Sept. 16, constabulary said Daniella sent 4 explicit photos to Crowley utilizing the app.

Police reported that 15 indecent photos and videos of Daniella were sent to Crowley implicit Snapchat betwixt Sept. 5, erstwhile they had their archetypal conversation, and Oct. 12.

Location pings connected Crowley’s telephone showed that connected the nighttime of Oct. 12, helium was astatine Tree Top Park, the tiny spot of writer a half-mile from Daniella’s father’s location successful Summerlin, wherever helium told constabulary helium picked up his girl that night.

Detectives utilized DMV records to place Crowley’s BMW, and erstwhile they pulled him implicit connected Nov. 5, his ex-girlfriend was successful the car with him. She reported that Crowley was known to merchantability cocaine, ecstasy, Percocet and different pills.

Later that day, constabulary searched Crowley’s location and recovered 2 phones and a camera, which contained nude photos of Daniella successful Crowley’s bedroom, according to the apprehension report.

Crowley told constabulary that helium met Daniella astatine the parkland to fume marijuana and aboriginal admitted that the 2 consumed cocaine that night. He denied selling her Percocet.

“She told him she was 17,” constabulary said.

He told constabulary that Daniella antecedently came to his location to instrumentality cocaine and that helium took nude photos of her.

Police arrested Crowley that day.

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