Las Vegas investor and purported billionaire Jay Bloom is accused of taking money from investors to fund a cryptocurrency mining scheme in Arizona that he knew was not viable, according to a recent lawsuit.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Susie Lee would put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to prosecute criminals taking part in organized retail theft.
Two-year-old Jacoby Robinson Jr. was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Thursday near Lewis Avenue and South 15th Street.
Prosecutors have dropped a slew of felony charges against a former member of a notorious Las Vegas gang, closing a case that has stretched on for more than three years.
Police said Caren Quiroz-Alvarez struck and injured four pedestrians on Monday who were at a vigil in a North Las Vegas parking lot.
Alexander Smirnov will remain under electronic monitoring as he awaits a hearing on allegations that he lied about an alleged bribery scheme involving Joe Biden.
A Las Vegas judge has postponed a murder trial date for Duane “Keffe D” Davis, the man accused of orchestrating the killing of hip-hop icon Tupac Shakur.
Two teenagers suspected of killing a retired police chief who was mowed down while riding his bike along a northwest valley road will face trial as adults, judges ruled Wednesday morng.
The Nevada Department of Corrections prison owes more than $460,000 in attorney fees and about $7,500 to a prisoner who was denied cataract surgery.
A woman accused of a crash that killed her two nieces appeared in North Las Vegas Justice Court. The mother of the girls remains hospitalized.
A man was sentenced on Wednesday to between 7 and 20 years in prison for his role in the overdose death of a 13-year-old girl.
Christopher Berrios, 55, is accused of killing 46-year-old Bernard Robledo at the Las Vegas home they shared and dumping his body in a recycling bin in September.
A woman accused of killing her husband in 2005 and a former UNLV professor in 2016 was found incompetent to stand trial on Friday.
During a court hearing Tuesday, Nevada Southern Detention Center officials said there are 38 inmates at the federal facility in Pahrump who have tested positive for the coronavirus.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, appeared in court again.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot in the northeast valley during what Las Vegas police described as a “drug transaction.”
The discovery was made about 9:40 p.m. in a neighborhood near Wetlands Park, police said.