Andreozzi + Foote and co-counsel The 702 Firm has filed a federal civil lawsuit (Case No. 2:26-cv-01310) in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada alleging that two Las Vegas hotel-casinos knowingly benefited from and enabled years of sex trafficking carried out by convicted sex offender Nathan Chasing Horse, who was sentenced to 37 years to life in prison on April 27, 2026.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of two survivors identified by their initials, names Boyd Gaming Corporation, which owned and operated The Cannery Casino & Hotel; Cannery Hotel and Casino, LLC, which did business as The Cannery Casino & Hotel, and Station Casinos, LLC, which operated the Santa Fe Station Hotel and Casino, as defendants. The lawsuit also names additional unidentified corporate defendants, referred to as “Roe Corporations I–X.”
According to the complaint, the survivors were trafficked at these properties between approximately 2014 and 2022, where they were forced into commercial sex acts.
The lawsuit alleges the hotel ignored clear warning signs and allowed the trafficking to continue by repeatedly renting rooms and enabling the trafficker’s operation.
Allegations Detail Years of Trafficking Inside Las Vegas Hotels
The complaint alleges that Nathan Chasing Horse exploited his position as a self-proclaimed spiritual leader within the Lakota community to manipulate and control victims, using coercion, isolation, and threats of violence to force them into commercial sex acts. It further alleges that victims were visibly branded with a spider tattoo, an identifying mark that would have been observable to hotel staff.
The lawsuit alleges that both victims were trafficked for years inside the hotels, where they were closely controlled by the trafficker and forced to engage in repeated commercial sex acts with multiple buyers. The complaint alleges that hotel staff failed to intervene despite visible signs of distress from the victims.
According to the lawsuit, hotel staff interacted with Chasing Horse and offered him gifts to keep him at their hotel.
Chasing Horse was convicted in January 2026 on charges stemming from sex trafficking and sexual abuse and sentenced on April 27, 2026, to 37 years to life in prison.
The lawsuit is brought under the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA), which allows survivors to pursue civil claims against entities that knowingly benefit from participation in a trafficking venture. The suit also brings claims of negligence, gross negligence, and recklessness.
“Convicted sex trafficker Nathan Chasing Horse has been held criminally accountable, but this lawsuit focuses on the role that businesses may have played in allowing the trafficking to continue,” Alex Marcinko, the Andreozzi + Foote attorney handling the case, said.
“The complaint alleges that clear and repeated signs of trafficking were present over a period of years,” Marcinko added. “When businesses fail to recognize and act on those warning signs, it can create an environment where exploitation continues unchecked.”
The survivors are seeking accountability from the hotel-casinos that allegedly enabled the trafficking, as well as recognition of the significant physical, emotional, and psychological harm they endured.
Civil litigation plays a critical role in uncovering how trafficking is allowed to persist and in driving meaningful systemic change within industries where it occurs.
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