LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas judge jailed a man Thursday convicted of driving drunk and killing three of his friends as a teenager for allegedly drinking while out of custody amid two ongoing DUI cases, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Joe Bonaventure ordered the arrest of Sean Larimer, 36, on Thursday morning after Larimer failed to appear in court. Police arrested Larimer several hours later, a source told the 8 News Now Investigators.
Larimer faces two DUI charges in two separate incidents: one from August 2023 and one from this January, records said.
In August, Las Vegas Metro police responded to a crash at a business on Warm Springs Road near Cimarron Road, documents said. A witness told police he saw a driver, later identified as Larimer, driving around and attempting “to park forward and backwards,” documents said.
Tests showed Larimer’s blood alcohol level was 0.36 in the hours after the crash, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. The legal limit in Nevada is 0.08.