Lawyers for California tech billionaire want Vegas drug case dismissed
LAS VEGAS — Attorneys for a California tech billionaire and his co-defendant want a felony Las Vegas drug case against them dismissed, arguing in documents filed Wednesday that prosecutors can’t prove ownership of luggage in which police reported finding heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine and several psychedelic substances.
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III’s lawyers and an attorney representing Ashley Christine Fargo told a judge ahead of a scheduled July 31 evidence hearing that all seven drug trafficking and possession charges should be thrown out.
Nicholas also is primary backer of nationwide “Marsy’s Law” crime victim rights campaigns.
He and Fargo are denying they owned the drugs found last August in cases in their room at the Encore resort.
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