BILLIONAIRE BUSTED AS DOPE PUSHER!
Cops find drug suitcase and blacked-out beauty in Sin City hotel room
ATECH billionaire has been charged with drug trafficking after police found suitcases stuffed with meth and heroin in his Las Vegas hotel suite.
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III, 60, and his galpal, Ashley Christine Fargo, were busted in August after Nicholas called hotel security to help him get into his locked room.
Inside the suite at the Encore, security found Fargo — the exwife of a Wells Fargo heir — unconscious, and proceeded to call cops.
After raiding the room, police came across a stash of drugs that included methamphetamine, cocaine, marijuana, heroin, tablets believed to be ecstasy and mushrooms though to contain hallucinogenic psilocybin, and discovered a deflated balloon inside Fargo’s mouth.
Nicholas told cops a gas canister in the room held nitrous oxide “for recreational use” and admitted to bringing it on his private plane.
According to court documents, investigators recovered 82.5 grams of speed and 4.24 grams of heroin in briefcases found in the room.
Neither Nicholas nor Fargo claimed the briefcases as their property despite being seen carrying what appeared to be the black Pelican cases on surveillance video, said a police report.
Nicholas and Fargo were charged on Feb. 13 with five drug trafficking and two drug possession charges. The trafficking charges stemmed from the amount of controlled substances found.
Lawyers for both Nicholas and Fargo insist their clients are innocent. A hearing is scheduled for later this month.
Nicholas co-founded computer software company Broadcom in 1991, but stepped down as president and CEO in 2003.
He’s reportedly worth $3.1 billion.