No drugs found in Rainbow rampage suspect

Friday, May 9, 2003 | 10:04 a.m.

Tests showed that the 19-year-old man charged in the collisions that wrecked 11 vehicles while careening down Rainbow Boulevard in stolen vehicles April 29 had no drugs in his system, Metro Police Detective Doug Nutton said.

After he was arrested, Carlos Burgarin of Las Vegas allegedly told Metro Police that he was on PCP and that Jesus had told him he needed to go to Zion National Park in Utah.

Burgarin also told police he had been on a perscription drug used to treat mental illness, but that it ran out.

Police ordered a urine test for PCP and a number of other illegal and perscription drugs, and all came back negative, Nutton said. Bugarin may undergo a psychological evaluation.

Bugarin is being held in Clark County Detention Center on numerous charges stemming from the wrecks.

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