BLACKS: Las Vegas police: Couple allegedly used U-Haul to kidnap, rob man; gave lethal dose of fentanyl to rob while he was dying

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Las Vegas police: Couple allegedly used U-Haul to kidnap, rob man

A Las Vegas couple accused of kidnapping and robbing a man in February were arrested last week, according to authorities.

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Las Vegas police: Couple allegedly used U-Haul to kidnap, rob man​

A vehicle with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department is seen in this FOX5 file photo.(FOX5)
By Michael Bell
Published: Aug. 25, 2023 at 11:38 AM MST

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - A Las Vegas couple accused of kidnapping and robbing a man in February were arrested last week, according to authorities.
Kashon Glass, 37, and Cheylee Kessee, 23, are both facing charges of conspiracy to commit robbery, conspiracy to commit first-degree kidnapping, robbery with a deadly weapon, first-degree kidnapping with a deadly weapon, and coercion with force.
As of Friday, they are both being held without bond.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police report alleges the following:

Just after midnight on Feb. 20, officers responded to a Terrible’s gas station near West Carey Avenue and Rancho Drive for a reported robbery.
The victim told police he had met Kessee in January and messaged her that night to see if she wanted to hang out and go to Santa Fe Station.
Kessee picked the victim up in a U-Haul cargo van and told him she was a prostitute, then offered to have sex with him for $250 but the victim “didn’t know what that meant” when she offered “full service.”
The victim offered Kessee $30 to drive him to Sante Fe Station. On their way there, Glass entered the van and robbed the victim of $97.51 after pointing a gun against his ribcage.
Glass then told the man to unlock his cellphone, then slapped him before taking his phone and the man got out of the van and ran away from the suspects.
Police found that “Kareem Brown”, an alias used by Glass, had rented the U-Haul, and that both suspects were possibly involved in another deadly robbery in January.
On Aug. 17, police responded to the Howard Johnson near Duke Ellington Way south of Tropicana Avenue as they learned the suspects were there.
Glass and Kessee refused to come out and a SWAT team was called in. Both were taken into custody after nearly two hours.
In interviews, Kessee admitted to renting a U-Haul and then asked for a lawyer. Glass said he remembered letting Kessee borrow the U-Haul but didn’t remember robbing a man outside of a gas station.
Both are due back in court Sept. 5.

 

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Kidnapping suspects arrested after allegedly stealing briefcase at gunpoint: police​

by: Stephanie Overton

Posted: Aug 24, 2023 / 02:50 PM PDT

Updated: Aug 24, 2023 / 02:57 PM PDT

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two people are facing charges after they allegedly robbed a man at gunpoint and attempted to falsely cash checks before barricading themselves in a motel near the Strip, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
The two suspects were also arrested on unrelated charges, including kidnapping.
On Tuesday, Aug. 15, at around 8:40 p.m., officers were called to the 4600 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard after a report of a robbery. The personal driver of the owner of a motel told police that he had been robbed at gunpoint.
According to the report, the driver told police that he had parked the car at the motel and exited the vehicle with a briefcase. As he did, two people came rushing toward him, one of them pointing a gun at him.
The driver told police that the man told him to “give it up” and pressed the gun against his ribs while taking the briefcase from him. A second suspect ran from the scene with the man who had the briefcase.

Kashon Glass and Cheylee Kessee. (LVMPD)
The report stated that the driver told police he was in fear for his life and thought he would be shot if he did not give up the briefcase. The motel owner told police he did not see what happened, but he was “very upset” that the driver “gave up the briefcase so easily.”
According to the report, the briefcase contained two iPhones, $2500, ID cards, and work documents.
A maintenance worker at the motel told police that he saw the two suspects around the property at around 8:30 p.m. He recognized one of the suspects as Cheylee Kessee, 23, who he said had trespassed on the property multiple times but continued to rent rooms under other names. The maintenance worker told police he believed the other suspect was Kessee’s boyfriend.
The report stated that a man was arrested in the 3600 block of South Las Vegas Boulevard for attempting to sell marijuana to a plain-clothed officer. The man wanted to offer up information in an attempt to not go to jail, the report said.
The man told police that a person later identified as Kashon Glass, 37, had been bragging to him about how he had “came up” on some property and showed him an ID, social security card, and envelope full of checks belonging to the motel owner.
According to the report, Glass told the man that he may have to be a “guinea pig” and try to cash one of the checks.
Police were able to use the information from the man to find surveillance video of Glass and Kessee, which matched video of the suspects who stole the briefcase, the report stated.
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On Thursday, Aug. 17 at around 11:45 a.m., detectives saw Kessee and Glass at a motel in the 100 block of East Tropicana Avenue near Las Vegas Boulevard. When police attempted to call out to them, they barricaded themselves inside a room and refused to leave.
LVMPD SWAT units responded to the scene and were able to take the two into custody at around 4 p.m.
According to the report, Kessee and Glass were both wanted for coercion with force, robbery with a deadly weapon, and kidnapping. 8 News Now reached out to Metro to get more information on that incident, which was not immediately available.
A records check showed that Glass had been arrested for the following crimes:

• Coercion with force
• Robbery with use of a deadly weapon
• Conspiracy to commit robbery with use of a deadly weapon
• Kidnapping in the first degree with use of a deadly weapon
• Coercion
• Possession
• Facilitating sex trafficking with a victim 18 or older
• Conspiracy to commit burglary
• Conspiracy to commit theft
• Conspiracy to administer drug to aid in committing of felony

A records check showed that Kessee had been arrested for the following crimes:

• Grand larceny
• Residential burglary
• Administer drug to aid in committing of felony
• Carry a conceal weapon without permit
• Prostitution or engaging in prostitution
• Robbery with a deadly weapon
• Conspiracy to commit robbery
• Kidnapping in the first degree with use of a deadly weapon

Both Glass and Kessee were arrested and taken to the Clark County Detention Center. They are both facing charges of obtaining and using another person’s ID for harmful or unlawful purposes, possessing stolen property, and possessing a person’s ID to commit forgery.
They are also facing the following charges in an unrelated case:

• Conspiracy to commit robbery
• Conspiracy to commit kidnapping in the first degree
• Robbery with use of a deadly weapon
• Kidnapping in the first degree
• Coercion with force or threat of force
• Conspiracy to commit robbery with a deadly weapon
• Conspiracy to coerce

On Thursday, the two were being held at CCDC. Preliminary hearings for both will be held on Sept. 5 at 10 a.m.

 

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Couple accused of giving robbery victim fatal fentanyl dose

A man and woman indicted on murder charges are accused of a string of robberies, including one in which they allegedly gave a man a fatal dose of fentanyl.

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Couple accused of giving robbery victim fatal fentanyl dose TO ROB HIM​

Kason Glass, left and Cheylee Kessee (Metropolitan Police Department)


By Katelyn Newberg Las Vegas Review-Journal

December 1, 2023 - 6:03 pm


A couple suspected in a string of robberies has been indicted on first-degree murder charges after prosecutors said they gave a man a fatal dose of fentanyl in order to rob him.


Cheylee Kessee, 23, and Kashon Glass, 37, were indicted Wednesday on charges of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, robbery, grand larceny, residential burglary, administering a drug to aid in a felony, four counts of conspiracy, and drug possession. Glass faces two additional drug possession charges and a weapons charge, according to court records.

The two are accused of giving Jeffrey Jacoby a lethal dose of fentanyl on March 1, court records show.

Kessee was operating as a sex worker at The Venetian and Palazzo when she met Jacoby at a bar earlier this year, Chief Deputy District Attorney Michael Schwartzer said during an indictment-return hearing on Wednesday. He said that Jacoby was in town for a convention when he met Kessee, and that she went with him to his hotel room.


Schwartzer said surveillance footage showed Glass watching the interaction and acting as a “pimp” for Kessee. In text messages between the two, Glass asked Kessee why she was taking so long in Jacoby’s hotel room.

“She tells Mr. Glass to chill and that she’s having him smoke right now,” Schwartzer said.


Kessee is accused of taking Jacoby’s phone, wallet and $1,000 from the room while he died of a fentanyl overdose, he said.

A few days later, Kessee was arrested in a “trick-roll sting” set up by Metropolitan Police Department vice detectives. She was arrested while in possession of fentanyl, and texts between her and Glass show they were planning another robbery, Schwartzer told the judge during Wednesday’s court hearing. Glass was also arrested while in possession of fentanyl and a firearm.

District Judge Jerry Wiese ordered both to be held on $1 million bail.

Court records show that Kessee and Glass were both charged in March with administering a drug to aid in a felony, grand larceny, theft, residential burglary, drug possession and conspiracy charges, but the case was dropped in Las Vegas Justice Court.

“We decided to further pursue the investigation before going forward with the case,” Schwartzer said in a phone interview on Friday.

Both Kessee and Glass face charges of first and second-degree murder in connection with Jacoby’s death. The first-degree murder charge would require a jury to find there was premeditation or that the killing happened during the commission of another felony, while the second-degree murder charge is what defendants typically face in connection with fentanyl deaths.

On Friday, Schwartzer said the defendants cannot be adjudicated for both murder charges, and that the charges are acting as “alternative counts.”

The Clark County district attorney’s office has charged a handful of defendants with murder in connection with fatal overdose deaths in recent years, although none of the defendants have gone to trial or been convicted of a murder charge.

Schwartzer said this is the first case he’s aware of where the defendants are accused of using fentanyl to commit a robbery.

The two have also been linked to multiple robberies in the past year. Court records show they also face charges in connection with a February armed kidnapping and robbery.

Months after Jacoby’s death, Kessee and Glass were also accused of robbing Sam Aldabbagh, the longtime owner of the now closed Diamond Inn Motel, at 160 Las Vegas Boulevard North. Aldabbagh testified to a grand jury that his driver took him to the hotel on Aug. 15, when two people took his briefcase with more than $2,000 in cash.

The driver testified that the two robbers had been sitting outside the motel wearing masks, and that one had a firearm when they took the briefcase from him, according to transcripts from a grand jury hearing.

Glass and Kessee were arrested on Aug. 17 in connection with the robbery at the Diamond Inn, following an hours-long barricade at the Howard Johnson hotel, at 165 E. Tropicana Ave.

The two are also connected to a January robbery at the Diamond Inn, when Kessee was accused of taking a man back to the motel for Glass to rob at gunpoint. Glass and Kessee face charges including robbery, kidnapping, conspiracy and ownership of a weapon by a prohibited person in connection with the alleged robberies at the Diamond Inn, and a jury trial in the case is currently scheduled to start Dec. 11.

Defense attorney Andrew Flahive, who represents Kessee, declined to comment on the cases. Glass’ attorney, Roger Bailey, did not respond to a request for comment.