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.
A suspect in Saturday’s jewelry store smash-and-grab on the Strip told police he traveled from Mexico City to Las Vegas because his family was being threatened.
A man was arrested early Saturday morning following a burglary at the Bellagio involving animal masks and smashed glass.
Las Vegas police are searching for two men in connection with a Thursday night stabbing and robbery in the central valley.
Las Vegas police are investigating after shots were fired during a burglary to a retail store within the Bellagio early Saturday.
An 18-year-old man was arrested Tuesday in connection with an early Monday morning police chase after a string of armed home improvement store robberies.
Three people suspected of an early March armed robbery of two pedestrians in the northeast valley remain at large, police said.
One of the men allegedly pulled a knife on a security officer at TJ Maxx store on S. Maryland Parkway.
A felon who hit a legal jackpot last year has flushed away his good fortune and landed himself back in prison, 10 months after a case-sinking error by federal prosecutors allowed him to walk free on a string of armed robbery charges.
Isaack Lorenzo Alamos, 20, of San Bernardino, California, was the man shot and killed during a robbery-home invasion in the northwest valley Monday night.
A teenager was arrested Saturday in connection with the March 1 robbery and assault of an 84-year-old woman in the Sam’s Town casino.
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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.
