A man charged with holding a woman hostage for hours in a room at the iconic Caesars Palace Resort in Las Vegas caused more than $50,000 in damages, a police report said at the time. It was an extremely high level of drug addiction.”
Matthew Mannix, 35, was arrested Tuesday after a tense six-hour standoff with police, according to Russ. During that time, he repeatedly “opened and closed the door,” taunted him by telling him he had a gun, and threatened to “pull the trigger.”Las Vegas Police Department Report Obtained at KLAS.
Police told reporters Tuesday they were dispatched to the scene around 9:15 a.m. after hotel security reported that Mannix had “forced” a woman into the room during an argument.
The Colorado fugitive threatened hotel security and police, telling them that if they refused to leave the hotel, things would end badly. A woman’s voice was heard shouting through the door, “He has a knife,” reports said.
Video recorded at the scene showed a man prying open a window on the 21st floor and throwing furniture down, causing objects to fall as guests fled the hotel’s pool area.
A woman in the same room (whose name has been redacted in the report) was also very drug addicted.
She and Mannix had been used as drug traffickers for several days at the time and were living temporary lives on the Las Vegas strip, she told police. It is not clear what drugs they were using.
She said she had an off-and-on sexual relationship with Mannix. She believed Mannix was an MTV actor.
During the standoff, she said Mannix threatened her with a knife and stayed in the room. She was also scared that he would throw her out of her broken window.
Police said Tuesday that the woman was unharmed in the ordeal.
After Mannix was taken into custody, police executed a search warrant against a ransacked hotel room. A veteran police officer said in a report that officers witnessed “some of the most serious property damage I have seen in my 18 years as a detective.”
Ultimate damages have not been determined, but officials estimate the damages to be more than $50,000.
An arrest warrant has been issued for Mannix in Colorado, but police reports have been redacted about the crime, KLAS reported. Additionally, he has four active protection orders issued against him.
He was charged in Clark County, Nevada with kidnapping, coercion or threat of force with a deadly weapon, destruction or damage to real estate or personal property, resisting a government official with a deadly weapon, and disregard for the safety of people and property. indicted.
The newspaper said he is scheduled to appear in the Las Vegas Judicial Court on Wednesday afternoon.
