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‘She’s in our hearts’: Metro detective’s dedication to overdose victim’s family earns him recognition 2%
By Hillary Davis0%
8/1/2026, 7:00:00 PM
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As a father, Metro Police Detective Bryan Davila can’t imagine what Crystal Jimenez’s family has endured in the more than two years since her overdose death.
Assigned as the narcotics detective on Jimenez’s March 2024 death — caused by a combination of alcohol and fentanyl — Davila knew exactly what he had to do: seek justice for the people she left behind, however long and complicated that path might be.
So as Davila walked that path alongside the woman’s parents: He kept them updated on her case, aware of how slowly criminal investigations and prosecutions can move.
Information, he said, gives survivors the clarity and closure they need.
“A lot of times, our investigations prolong grief.
We understand that, and we try to minimize that as much as possible, mostly with communication,” Davila said.
“That’s why I try to provide as much detail and as much information and evidence as I can.”
He kept the Jimenezes abreast of legal proceedings, connected them with the Clark County district attorney’s office and made sure they received her belongings.
Until last week, though, he hadn’t met Jimenez’s loved ones in person.
On Wednesday, he finally did, with the assistance of the nonprofit LVMPD Foundation in partnership with Resorts World Las Vegas, which teamed up to give Davila a Good Ticket award for his attention to the Jimenez case.
The Good Ticket program honors Metro officers and civilian personnel with recognition and a staycation at Resorts World.
Jimenez’s father, Ed Jimenez, said Davila guided the family through the emotional trauma of losing Crystal and kept them from feeling alone.
Crystal Jimenez was 38 years old when she died.
She worked in the hotel industry.
She left behind two teenage children.
If she were still alive, she would now be a grandmother.
Davila said police quickly identified a suspect in her death, but the case was complicated — federal court records show that Roland Torres, Crystal Jimenez’s former boyfriend and the father of her younger child, also pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a separate federal case.
Torres was the person who gave her the fentanyl that took her life.
He pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter earlier this year.
Crystal’s family said Davila was gracious and professional.
He said they were patient and strong.
“As an investigator, I always try to find out more about the person, the victim, that I can’t talk to,” he said.
“A lot of that goes through the family.
It’s tough for them sometimes to talk about their loved ones, especially after their death.”
Ed Jimenez remembered his daughter as a devoted friend and mother who was “a hard-working girl.”
“She always had three jobs before she met Roland.
She actually supported him,” he said.
“She was a hard worker.
She always loved her kids.”
Lisa Jimenez, Crystal Jimenez’s stepmother, said Crystal got hooked on opioids after taking prescribed oxycodone for a medical procedure.
She said the family tried to help Crystal through rehab at least twice.
Anyone can fall into addiction, Ed Jimenez said, but they must accept help to get out of it.
“You have to fix yourself before you can really get help.
… That’s why we have a lot of homeless on the street.
A lot of them are addicted.
They don’t want help.
That’s what they do,” he said.
“There’s others that do need help but are too afraid to ask.”
Torres was sentenced in April to 19-48 months in state prison for Crystal’s death, according to Clark County court records.
Nevada Department of Corrections records show he is serving his time in a prison outside of Las Vegas.
Ed Jimenez said his daughter’s case isn’t over even now.
Not really.
“I don’t think it’s over because she’s not here,” he said.
“She’s in our hearts.”
Davila said Metro’s narcotics unit arrested 14 dealers last year for murder in connection to deaths resulting from the drugs they distributed.
He said the department is on track to arrest about that many this year.
Past recipients of the monthly Good Ticket award include officers who kept scared children calm during a squatter call, an officer who assisted a man in a wheelchair as he struggled to cross the street during a downpour, a crime scene investigator who helped save a missing elderly man and two emergency dispatchers who were vital in ensuring safety during a high-speed pursuit.
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