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.
Rapper YG turned himself in to Las Vegas police custody on Thursday in connection with a May robbery at a Strip resort, police said.
A man told police he was robbed by three men this month after trying to retrieve a cellphone he left while gambling with singer Trey Songz and several others at a Strip hotel, court documents show.
A pair of robbers held up people in two parking garages around the Strip before suspects were caught at a third location early Tuesday morning.
Officers are searching for the man who used a gun to rob the sports book about 1:30 p.m. at the Flamingo, 3555 Las Vegas Blvd. South.
The men posed as customers before using force to steal a luxury watch from a business about 11 p.m. at Forum Shops at Caesars , 3500 Las Vegas Blvd. South, according to a Metropolitan Police Department release.
Cameron James Kennedy, 26, was charged with robbery in the armed holdup of a casino cage at New York-New York, according to the U.S. Department of Justice and a federal criminal complaint filed last week.
The Metropolitan Police Department released video footage of an armed man they said robbed a Las Vegas Strip casino Wednesday morning.
According to Las Vegas Review-Journal records, Metro investigated 171 homicides, not including the 58 deaths from the mass shooting on Oct. 1.
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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.