Las Vegas Hard Rock Casino Offers to Settle Drug Case
The Nevada Gaming Control Board filed a complaint alleging that employees at the Hard Rock casino committed the Nevada crime of selling drugs and even provided customers private bathrooms to take the drugs as well as have sex. The Hard Rock isn't admitting any wrongdoing but is offering to settle the case with $650,000. The Gaming Commission will consider this proposal this month or next month.
The Nevada crime of selling drugs prohibits selling controlled substances whether they're illegal drugs or prescription drugs. Arrests are frequently made after police allegedly witness a drug sale through either covert surveillance posts or stings where undercover police act as drug buyers. Common defenses to this crime include entrapment and insufficient evidence.
Penalties for the Nevada crime of selling drugs turn on the type of controlled substance. For a schedule I or II, a first offense is a category B felony carrying one-to-six years and $20,000. Otherwise it's one-to-five years and $10,000. If it's a first offense the judge may be willing to grant probation.
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