Martin Deavon Nelson was sentenced to 46 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
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The 230 pounds of the cocaine that were found Friday were wrapped in bags and boxes found on top of a load of tomatoes, the Metropolitan Police Department wrote in an arrest report released Tuesday.
A Pahrump man testified Thursday that an acquaintance, one of three people charged with torturing and fatally shooting a Las Vegas man, asked for help following the killing in August.
He was accused of sexually exploiting his stepdaughter in a new federal complaint and was previously indicted in an alleged conspiracy to commit violence at BLM protests.
The Nevada Sentencing Commission on Wednesday twice rejected recommending that Gov. Steve Sisolak move to depopulate the state’s prisons in an effort to stave off the coronavirus’ spread.
A former correctional officer trainee at High Desert State Prison charged in the shooting death of an inmate struck a deal with prosecutors Tuesday.
Colon Jackson, charged with killing a 3-year-old girl on on Ely Shoshone tribal land earlier this year will remain in jail until his trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Lawyers for condemned Nevada prisoner Scott Dozier told a judge Tuesday that the state still has not revealed critical details of his lethal injection scheduled for November.
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.
A task force of judges, prosecutors, legislators, youth advocates and juvenile probation officials on Tuesday began considering options to improve Nevada’s juvenile justice system and break a cycle of repeat offenders.
A Reno man pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with others to support terrorist attacks in India.
An inmate in Northern Nevada serving a life sentence for sexual assault has died, the Nevada Corrections Department said.
They lost their bid for a new trial in the largest mortgage fraud case in Nevada. Now federal prosecutors want a judge to order former real estate broker Eve Mazzarella and her ex-husband, Steven Grimm, returned to prison to continue serving lengthy terms behind bars while they appeal their 2011 convictions.
Nevada’s appellate courts decreased their pending caseload by more than 12 percent in fiscal 2015, and the decline is expected to continue next year.
A Kingman, Arizona, judge questioned the logic of Arizona sentencing mandates Wednesday when he imposed two life prison terms plus 25 years more for a California man convicted of sex offenses involving his granddaughter.
