Thursday, Oct. 12, 2000 | 2:20 a.m.
Prosecutors are deciding whether there is sufficient evidence to bring murder charges in the March slayings of two armored car guards outside a Ross Dress for Less store.
Prosecutors will review evidence Henderson police submitted to decide whether to file charges against one or more suspects or whether more investigation is needed.
No one has been charged in the March 3 slayings of Armored Transport officer Gary Prestidge II, 23, and fellow security guard Richard Sosa, 47.
Three men, however, who are linked to a June robbery at the Bellagio resort casino have been named suspects in the deaths of the two guards. Gunmen ambushed the guards in the parking lot outside the Ross discount department store.
Jose Vigoa and Oscar Cisneros Sanchez were identified as suspects in the shootings shortly after their June arrest in the Bellagio robbery.
Sanchez, who hanged himself Saturday in his cell at the Clark County Detention Center, confessed to being at the scene of the homicides. His DNA also was recovered at the crime scene.
Before his death Sanchez had implicated Vigoa and Luis Suarez as participants in the Henderson heist, authorities said.
Suarez was arrested in late August in connection with the Bellagio case.
Clark County District Attorney Stewart Bell said he is optimistic charges will be filed in the high-profile case despite the loss of Sanchez as a potential witness.
In addition to the incident in which $160,000 in cash and chips were stolen from Bellagio's main cashier cage, Sanchez and Vigoa are suspects in robberies at the New York-New York, Mandalay Bay, Desert Inn and MGM Grand hotels.
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