Escape charges filed against woman accused of bringing drugs to jailed murder suspect
A Las Vegas woman who was jailed for violating the conditions of her release while on house arrest is now charged with escape. She has also been released on house arrest again.
Skye A. Sedillo, 22, of Las Vegas, was charged Dec. 1 with one felony count of escape from a community custody release program. Sedillo was already in custody at the San Miguel County Detention Center for violating the terms of her release in a case from August where she’s accused of attempting to sneak a package containing methamphetamine and heroin to her boyfriend Rodger A. Tait-Gomez, an inmate at SMCDC who is currently being held on multiple charges including first-degree murder.
The escape charge was filed because Sedillo was not at the home she’d been ordered to stay in as part of the terms of her release when an investigator with the Fourth Judicial District Attorney’s Office stopped by for a check.
During a Dec. 2 hearing, Judge Christian Moñtano ordered Sedillo held on $5,000 cash-only bond. However, during a Dec. 3 review hearing, Judge Melanie Rivera reduced the bond to an unsecured $5,000, and released Sedillo to the custody of a family member. Sedillo was ordered to remain on house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor, and she was released from SMCDC Dec. 4.
Sedillo had previously been on house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor while awaiting trial, but in September, Sedillo asked the court to remove the ankle monitor because she was unable to pay for the monitoring service. Judge Montaño approved the removal of the monitor on Sept. 16. The DA’s office investigator visited the house on Oct. 6 to find that Sedillo was not there.
Sedillo was initially arrested Aug. 10 following a traffic stop outside SMCDC. Police and corrections officers allege Sedillo was there to deliver a package containing meth, heroin and injection needles to a corrections officer. Sedillo believed the officer would then take the package to Tait-Gomez, according to a statement of probable cause filed in San Miguel Magistrate Court.
Tait-Gomez faces 10 felony charges — including first-degree murder — in the shooting death of 16-year-old Adelina Tafoya near Storrie Lake State Park in July. Last month, Tait-Gomez was charged with five additional felonies for his alleged role in arranging the deal with a corrections officer who he believed would retrieve the package containing narcotics from Sedillo. Instead, the corrections officer called the Las Vegas Police Department, and officers arranged for Sedillo to be arrested.
Nico L. Barela has also been charged with first-degree murder. He and Tait-Gomez are awaiting trial in the death of Tafoya, but dates for those trials have not been scheduled.
Tait-Gomez is scheduled to appear in Magistrate Court Dec. 17 for a preliminary hearing in the case where he’s accused of arranging to have Sedillo deliver narcotics to the jail.
Sedillo is scheduled to appear in Magistrate Court Jan. 14, 2021 in front of Judge Moñtano. In the drug trafficking case, a status hearing is scheduled for Jan. 20, 2021 in District Court before Judge Gerald Baca.
