The woman who said she survived five days in Red Rock Canyon testedpositive for
amphetamines after her rescue, her oldest son confirmed Thursday.

However, Jason Caudill said his mother, Christine Asleson, does not use illegal drugs.

Las Vegas police searched in vain for Asleson in the days after she disappeared. They subsequently expressed skepticism at her survival account, questioning whether a person could have lasted so long in such dangerous conditions. Police have estimated the search cost taxpayers about $50,000.

Asleson spoke with investigators for about 10 minutes before halting those talks Monday.

On Tuesday, Asleson said she was eager to meet with police but first wanted to hire an attorney. As of Thursday, she had not met with police.

"The investigation is pretty much resolved," police Capt. Terry Lesney said Thursday. "We don't have anything to discredit her story or to confirm it. If she was a suspect it would be different, but she was a victim. ... Pretty much where we go from here is we close the case."

Asleson told authorities she survived without water by eating flowers, crouching in the shade and rubbing dirt on herself to keep cool in the 90-degree-plus temperatures.

She was found May 7 when someone heard her shouting from a cliff only a short distance from the area where police, her friends and family and other volunteers were based during the search.

She was taken to University Medical Center, where television and newspaper photographers greeted her ambulance.

Upon seeing the photographers, the frail looking Asleson began singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough." She later said police failed to find her because they did not look high enough in the treacherously steep terrain of Red Rock Canyon.

Caudill, 27, said his mother is represented by Las Vegas attorney Barry Levinson, who could not be reached late Thursday afternoon.

Amphetamines are a type of stimulant that can increase alertness and energy. They can be legally prescribed for those with conditions like narcolepsy or attention deficit disorder, or even purchased over the counter as a nasal decongestant, said Dr. Ruth Winecker, a forensic toxicologist for the North Carolina Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Winecker said standard toxicology tests at hospitals cannot distinguish between methamphetamines and amphetamines because they are remarkably similar in structure.

She said blood tests generally can reveal amphetamine or methamphetamine use that has happened within 24 hours, and urine tests can detect use up to three days.

Caudill said his mother's survival story is legitimate and that she immediately returned his brother's prescription drugs when she was rescued.

"She had her and my brother's medication with her, and she handed them both to me," he said.

$100,000 in damages.

"This traumatized him (Cedano)," Levinson said. "He (Cedano) saved up a lot of money for this trip. He always dreamed of having his honeymoon in Las Vegas. They (Circus Circus staff) tried to accommodate him, but didn't comp him. They actually accused him of doing it himself."

Levinson said Cedano has been under the care of a psychologist ever since the incident took place.

"My client has needed the help of a psychologist because all of his friends call him 'poo poo man' now," Levinson said. "Everyone he tells laughs at him."

Mandalay Resort Group did not immediately return a phone call seeking comment. Levinson said Thursday afternoon that he didn't think Mandalay had yet received a copy of the complaint.

Levinson said Cedano screamed when he realized what happened and after becoming "physically ill" called the hotel supervisor, who confirmed the substance on Cedano's face was human feces.

Cedano's complaint seeks damages for past and future medical expenses, loss of income in the past and future and an apology.

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A Virginia Beach man claims in a lawsuit that his Las Vegas honeymoon was ruined when he found a pile of human feces in his hotel bed.

Milciades M. "Mikey" Cedano Jr. filed a complaint last week in Clark County, Nev., saying that he got in bed late one night in January at the Circus Circus casino hotel and made the foul discovery.

His suit says hotel employees considered the situation to be a joke and that the incident caused emotional stress that has forced him to seek therapy.

Cedano is suing the parent company of Circus Circus, Mandalay Resort Group.

His suit seeks at least $40,000 in damages, but he said in an interview that he wants at least $100,000.

Cedano and his wife, LaVett Brown-Cedano, were married in 1997 and took a belated honeymoon the week of Jan. 22. On their last day in town, they arrived at their suite at midnight.

Cedano, worn out after several nights of playing craps, said he scooted into the sheets and caught a whiff of strong odor.

"Oh, God, I know that's not what I think it is," he recalls thinking. He said he jumped out of bed, screaming, and turned on the lights. He said his face was covered with feces.

He said he immediately called for a hotel supervisor. That individual and others "acted as if the whole incident was funny, further demeaning, humiliating and injuring the Plaintiffs," according to the lawsuit. The suit also says that hotel employees began referring to the suite as "the brown room."

That morning, the couple returned to Virginia. But Cedano said he was sick for weeks.

"I was throwing up," he said. "I was so sick, because I kept thinking about somebody else's feces on my face."

Barry Levinson, Cedano's attorney in Las Vegas, wrote in the complaint that hotel workers might say that the couple staged the incident. "This attitude only adds to Plaintiff's damages," he wrote.

bad and outrageous that you have to make light of it," he said in an interview.

Levinson sought publicity for the case through a news release, and Las Vegas papers have reported on the suit.

Cedano, 32, is an assistant manager for one of the Lowe's home improvement stores in Hampton Roads. He said co-workers have called him rude names and that he has visited a psychologist for five sessions because of the incident.

Circus Circus has about 3,700 rooms and is on the north end of the Las Vegas strip. Officials at the hotel and the parent company either would not comment on the pending lawsuit or could not be reached for comment.

Cedano and his wife said they will not return to Las Vegas.

"This was our first honeymoon we'd been waiting for so long to take," he said. "And it turned out to be a horrible one."

years tried to pull him off her son, Bobbitt shoved her to the ground, according to the report.

But Bobbitt's attorney, Barry Levinson, said his client is a victim of his own fame.

"Because it's John Bobbitt, they arrested him," Levinson said. "I know a witness, two witnesses, who saw the whole thing, and they said John didn't do a thing."

Levinson issued a news release about the incident Thursday titled "Love Hurts."

"John Wayne Bobbitt discovered once again that love can indeed be painful," the release states.

According to Levinson, Bobbitt was trying to break up a fight between his wife and his stepson. The commotion began when the boy reacted angrily to finding various sexual aides and toys scattered throughout his mother's bedroom, Levinson said.

Bobbitt's arrest comes about 15 months after he was convicted in Las Vegas of battering his wife.

A week after that conviction, a judge in Fallon revoked Bobbitt's probation and sentenced him to prison for his role in the 1999 theft of more than $140,000 in clothing from a Fallon store.

Levinson expects Bobbitt to remain in jail until he is arraigned on Monday because he cannot afford the $10,000 bail set for him.

Since moving from Virginia to Nevada after surgery to reattach his penis, Bobbitt has worked at a brothel, as a bartender and a tow truck driver.

At her 1994 trial, Bobbitt's first wife, Lorena, argued that he abused her. She was found innocent by reason of insanity in the assault.

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During an arraignment before Gregory in which Bobbitt appeared via a television broadcast from the jail, Bobbitt's attorney, Barry Levinson, unsuccessfully argued that Bobbitt was not a flight risk so no bail amount was necessary, but Gregory kept Bobbitt's bail amount at $20,264.

On Wednesday Bobbitt's stepson called Metro Police about 1:15 a.m. and alleged that he and his mother, Joanna Ferrell, were hit by Bobbitt during a scuffle earlier that evening inside their home, according to the arrest report.

The fight started after the teen was angered when he found a drawer full of sex toys in the bedroom of his mother and stepfather, police said. Police allege Bobbitt held down his 14-year-old stepson and struck him in the face several times with a closed fist. Ferrell was knocked down during the fight, according to the police report.

Bobbitt was arrested and charged with two counts of domestic battery.

Levinson said Gregory scheduled a hearing for Sept. 7 at which Bobbitt would either enter a plea agreement or set a trial date.

Levinson said because of a 2002 case of domestic violence against Bobbitt, he is certain that Bobbitt will have to serve at least three months in jail if he is convicted.

In May 2002 Bobbitt was arrested on a domestic battery charge and booked into Las Vegas City Jail on allegations that he assaulted Ferrell in Las Vegas less than two months after they were married.

This time, "if they find him guilty he will do jail time," Levinson said. Sun reporter