Prosecutors: Man sold fentanyl that killed travel influencer

A antheral with anterior drug- and robbery-related convictions was indicted Friday successful transportation with the overdose decease of travel influencer Anunay Sood.

Thamrong Hill, 49, faces charges including second-degree murder, selling oregon transporting a controlled substance, and possessing a controlled substance with the intent to sell.

Clark County Deputy District Attorney Elan Eldar said Hill sold Sood what Sood believed was cocaine connected Nov. 4.

Along with his fiancée and different woman, Sood had met Hill for the transaction connected the casino level astatine the Wynn Las Vegas astir 4 a.m., authorities person said.

According to police, the radical took the drugs and fell asleep. Hours later, the women recovered Sood unresponsive and without a pulse.

Police and firefighters administered 5 doses of naloxone — an exigency medicine utilized to reverse opioid overdoses — but Sood was pronounced dormant wrong his country astatine 7:23 a.m.

Based successful Dubai, Sood’s Instagram account, @anunaysood, has astir 1.4 cardinal followers, and his YouTube account, @AnunaySood, has much than 395,000 subscribers.

The coroner ruled that Sood died from fentanyl and intoxicant toxicity.

Eldar sought a $500,000 bail for Hill, whom helium accused of selling Sood the fentanyl that led to his death.

Chief Judge Jerry Wiese granted the request.

Hill, who prosecutors said has failed to look successful tribunal much than a twelve times, has been successful custody astatine the Clark County Detention Center since December connected larceny and cause charges.

He had antecedently received a suspended condemnation successful that lawsuit but was aboriginal remanded aft failing to look for cause court, tribunal records show.

In a abstracted territory tribunal case, Hill pleaded blameworthy to attempted possession of a controlled substance successful January and was ordered to walk a twelvemonth successful jail.

Hill is owed successful tribunal Thursday for arraignment.

Contact Akiya Dillon astatine adillon@reviewjournal.com.