Nevada Court Issues No-Bail Bench Warrant for “Vegas Dave” Oancea in Cabo Platinum $33M Judgment Case

Court’s contempt findings cite a self-created inability to comply, as grounds for the August 13 no-bail warrant.

LAS VEGAS, NV, UNITED STATES, August 17, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Nevada Court Issues No-Bail Bench Warrant for David “Vegas Dave” Oancea After Contempt Finding in Cabo Platinum Collection Case

LAS VEGAS, Nevada — Cabo Platinum, a Los Cabos-based luxury vacation rental and yacht charter company, confirmed today that the Eighth Judicial District Court of Clark County, Nevada issued a no-bail bench warrant on August 14, 2026 for David Nakama Oancea, known publicly as “Vegas Dave,” stemming from a civil judgment obtained by Cabo Platinum, LLC in Case No. A-24-892991-B.

According to the court’s Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law and Order entered July 17, 2026, following a six-day evidentiary trial, Judge Tara Clark Newberry found Oancea in contempt of a September 29, 2025 turnover order requiring him to surrender specified non-exempt assets toward satisfaction of a $30,200,590.10 judgment entered against him on July 17, 2025. The turnover order covered Oancea’s cryptocurrency holdings, a $400,000 Richard Mille watch, Hermès Birkin bags, and his interest in three Los Cabos villas.

The court’s order states that Oancea’s claimed inability to comply was self-created, strategic, and the result of voluntary acts taken to defeat court orders, and that his testimony in support of his defense was not credible. Court records document that a cryptocurrency-tracing expert traced $375,337.35 in digital assets Oancea moved through offshore exchange accounts after the turnover order took effect — the exact sum now listed as a purge condition in the bench warrant. The court separately found that Oancea swore under oath on four separate occasions in 2024 that he owned the three Los Cabos villas, before later claiming in an October 2025 filing that he had assigned his interest in the properties to his father for no consideration in December 2023 — an assignment the court found was not registered until nine days after Oancea’s own attorney watched the underlying turnover motion get granted. The court awarded Cabo Platinum $293,867.75 in attorneys’ fees and $16,979.65 in costs incurred as a result of the contempt.

The July 17, 2026 order gave Oancea until August 5, 2026 to comply with the court’s purge conditions, or to surrender himself for incarceration by August 6, 2026. Court records show Oancea did neither. The bench warrant, signed by Judge Joe Hardy of Department XV, instructs law enforcement that bail “is hereby set in the amount of NO BAIL,” and that the warrant “may be served at any hour of the day or night.” Oancea may secure release by satisfying the court’s purge conditions, which include surrendering the identified items or their cash equivalents, transferring the traced cryptocurrency sum to court-designated addresses, or executing a power of attorney admitted into evidence at the contempt hearing.

Cabo Platinum’s underlying judgment arose from litigation the company has pursued through Nevada courts since 2024, with parallel enforcement proceedings separately underway in Mexico. An appeal of the underlying judgment remains pending before the Nevada Supreme Court; the contempt finding and bench warrant relate to Oancea’s post-judgment compliance obligations rather than to that pending appeal.

“We intend to use every lawful enforcement mechanism available to us in both the United States and Mexico,” said a Cabo Platinum representative. “This warrant reflects the court’s own findings, not our characterization of them, and we will let the court record speak for itself as this matter proceeds.”

Court records documenting the case, including the judgment, contempt order, and bench warrant, are publicly available through the Eighth Judicial District Court, Clark County, Nevada, and are also compiled for public reference at vegasdavelawsuit.com.

Cabo Platinum has referred available location information to law enforcement to assist with execution of the warrant and continues to coordinate with counsel in both the United States and Mexico on collection efforts.

About Cabo Platinum Cabo Platinum is a Los Cabos, Mexico-based luxury vacation rental, yacht charter, and real estate management company serving clients across the Baja California Sur region.

Evan Sneider
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