A Nevada judge on Friday threw out a drug trafficking charge against a Dances With Wolves actor but upheld a Las Vegas grand jury’s sweeping indictment on 18 sexual abuse-related felony crimes.
In her order issued late Friday afternoon, Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny said state prosecutors presented enough evidence for “a reasonable grand jury to conclude that the sexual assaults occurred against two minors” but found that “there was no substantive testimony” connecting Nathan Chasing Horse to the psilocybin mushrooms investigators found while searching his home.
Chasing Horse, 46, had asked Kierny to toss the entire indictment, saying his accusers wanted to have sex with him and that the mushrooms found inside a refrigerator in his home did not belong to him.
One of his accusers was younger than 16 — the age of consent in Nevada — when she said Chasing Horse began abusing her. Read more: ‘Dances With Wolves’ actor Nathan Chasing Horse indicted in Nevada sex abuse case Public defender Kristy Holston said she had no comment on the judge’s ruling.