The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide Monday in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Crime
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Diaja Smith and Jacoby Robinson are being held in custody without bail in connection with the death of a 2-year-old whose body was found in a dumpster last week.
Las Vegas police investigated a fatal crash and a killing at a house party, and two officers shot a person they said tried to stab someone.
The wounded man died outside a residence where a party took place in northwest Las Vegas near West Oakey Boulevard.
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.
Las Vegas police say armed men arrived at the victims’ Airbnb shortly after the woman, working as a prostitute, had met the men the short-term rental.
Police have accused a woman of severely beating a man in a Strip hotel room and stealing money from him at the end of October.
Several assailants attacked the dealer at the Las Vegas Strip hotel and stole two luggage bags and a backpack, according to the lawsuit.
The pair was arrested on suspicion of allegedly trying to get away with Versace, Ferragamo items from Saks Fifth Avenue.
Vice detectives were assigned to investigate because the case appears to be related to prostitution, police said.
A woman is facing charges after allegedly luring an intoxicated man from a Strip hotel to what he thought was an Uber but later found he was being taken to a motel where he was robbed, according to police.
The attack happened May 30 on the 3800 block of Las Vegas Boulevard South, near Tropicana Avenue.
The shooting occurred near West Flamingo Road and South Valley View Boulevard.
Amanda Melendez, 28, is facing charges of grand larceny, conspiracy to commit burglary and residential burglary, court records show.
The victim called police April 9 to report a woman had stolen a black duffel bag containing more than $103,000 he won on bets at the MGM Grand.
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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.