The attorney for a defendant in an opioid distribution case is seeking the records of the Reno Gazette-Journal and once of its reporters. The newspaper reports that an attorney for Braden Riley is seeking materials related to interviews with a former Washoe County jail inmate, whose name has been withheld.
Courts
The Nevada Supreme Court has upheld the conviction of Richard Kravetz, who was sentenced to life for the 2009 beating death of his 88-year-old mother, Sarah Kravetz.
In recordings of Scott Dozier’s recent phone calls, made public this month through court exhibits, he tells friends and family he is tired of life, and he envisions his path to the execution chamber.
A 25-year-old Ohio woman has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison in Nevada on fraud charges stemming from an investigation that began when she falsely claimed to be a decorated military veteran.
A Las Vegas man who transported two minors from Nevada to California to work as prostitutes was sentenced Friday to 13 years in federal prison.
Brandy Stutzman helped ditch the killer’s bloody clothes, sent text messages to her husband, knowing he was dead, then feigned surprise when she found his body in his northern valley home, prosecutors said during closing arguments Friday.
A Green Party signature gatherer indicted in December on 15 felony counts for allegedly faking names on a ballot-access petition has been arrested in Las Vegas, the secretary of state’s office said Friday.
Paulino Quirazco-Valencia, 30, previously pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute 400 grams of heroin and methamphetamine after agents searched his car and found drugs stored in colored balloons under the front seat.
A state agency that can suspend a cab or limo driver’s license for drunken driving allowed one of its law enforcement officers to continue driving a state vehicle despite three previous DUI arrests.
Defense attorneys who represent associates of rancher Cliven Bundy responded swiftly this week to a government motion that aimed to block testimony about a wide range of topics in the upcoming trial against the people charged as gunmen in the 2014 standoff in Bunkerville.
Las Vegas Justice Court and the state Department of Motor Vehicles are partnering in a pilot program that allows drivers to pay ticket fines while at the DMV’s Flamingo branch.
Jeremiah Merriweather, who has confessed to the Nov. 2010 killing of 32-year-old Joe Stutzman, testified as a key prosecution witness Wednesday in Brandy Stutzman’s death penalty trial. Should a jury find her guilty and decide on capital punishment, Stutzman would be the only woman on death row in Nevada.
Anticipating a battle in the upcoming trial against six associates of rancher Cliven Bundy, federal prosecutors this week asked a judge to prohibit defense attorneys from referencing a wide range of material that is central to defense strategy in the case.
Tyrone Davis, 33, who was found in possession of a firearm and cocaine, was sentenced Tuesday to nearly 22 years in prison.
Prosecutors have played recordings of an undercover agent’s visit to Henri Wetselaar’s pain management practice during the trial against the doctor accused of running an illegal prescription drug ring.