The Nye County Sheriff's Office held a press conference on late Wednesday afternoon to discuss the details of the impending investigation into former NBA star Lamar Odom's tragic incident, local ABC News affiliate 15 Arizona reported. Official 911 tapes revealed information relating to the moments when Odom's body was found unconscious in Dennis Hoff's Love Ranch, a brothel located one hour outside of Las Vegas, Nev.
Sheriff Sharon Wehrly told reporters at the press conference that there were two 911 phone calls made by two separate brothel employees. The first employee called 911 at around 3:15 p.m. and confirmed Odom's body was found unconscious, as reported by local NBC affiliate News 4.
A second employee then called and confirmed that Odom had used cocaine as early as Saturday and had taken about 10 doses of a natural male performance enhancement drug called "Reload" over the course of three days.
Odom's condition, as described in the second 911 call, was that he was unconscious, but breathing when he was found. He also had blood, foam and a white substance running from his nose and his mouth.
When the ambulance arrived at around 3:45 p.m., Odom was stabilized and brought to the nearby Desert View Hospital, located about 20 minutes away in Pahrump, Nev., according to Wehrly. Medical crews attempted to transport Odom via helicopter company Mercy Air, but the former pro basketball player could not fit into the patient compartment due to his size.
He was instead taken to the Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Las Vegas in an ambulance and was attended to en route to the hospital by a Mercy Air nurse. An official at the press conference confirmed that Odom arrived at Sunrise hospital without incident.
At around 3:29 p.m., Investigator Michael Eisenloffel arrived at the scene with fellow investigator Corey Fowles. Eisenloffel confirmed that they obtained a search warrant for Odom's blood, which was drawn at Sunrise Hospital and then submitted to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Laboratory for testing. It could take several weeks to determine results from the blood tests.
If Odom is found in possession of cocaine from the pending investigation, it is "distinctly possible" that he could face possession charges, Wehrly said.
Eisenloffel said that his team has information on what was found in the room Odom was staying in at the brothel, what state he was in when he was found, whether there was any drug paraphernalia in the room when he was found and whether he made any phone calls or had any visitors during his stay, but because the investigation is ongoing, Eisenloffel declined to disclose any of that information.
Sheriff Wehrly said that the Nye County Sheriff's Office will hold another press conference once the investigation comes to a conclusion.
Odom has been unresponsive while on life support at Sunrise and his condition is being treated as a drug overdose. Odom's estranged wife, reality star Khloé Kardashian of the E! reality series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" has been by his side and making medical decisions for him since she arrived late Tuesday night, as previously reported by HNGN. Odom is in a coma and remains in critical condition.
