HOUSTON – An alleged assault at a Mexico City hotel last year is the subject of a local man’s federal lawsuit.
In court documents filed against Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, L.L.C., formerly known as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., and Marriott International, Inc. on Nov. 8 in the Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas, Joseph Pasztor recalls being the victim of the attack in question at the defendants’ W Mexico City hotel on Feb. 14, 2017.
According to Pasztor, he was drugged in the lobby bar and “taken to an isolated area of the hotel where he was further assaulted by other hotel personal (sic) who attempted to extract his front teeth with plyers (sic).”
The plaintiff adds that he attempted to fight the assailants off when he came to and was injected “with an unknown substance by hypodermic needle” that rendered him unconscious a second time.
Pasztor then found himself in the lobby sitting in a chair next to the front desk. Apparently “bloodied and severely injured,” the complainant sought assistance from the nighttime front desk manager to no avail.
He stayed in the lobby until the morning when he took a flight home to Houston.
Court filings fault the respondents for not providing any form of security and failing to tend to Pasztor promptly after he was purportedly attacked.
Consequently, the plaintiff seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.
He is represented by Jack Todd Ivey of the Ivey Law Firm, P.C. in Houston.
Houston Division of the Southern District of Texas Case No. 4:18-CV-4254