A hit-and-run suspect accused of killing a pedestrian last month in central Las Vegas was arrested Thursday, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
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A woman has sued Las Vegas police, alleging that police kept her hijab from her when she was being detained, and that she resorted to using her own bra as a covering.
Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
A suspect is in custody in a deadly shooting this past weekend in the northwest Las Vegas Valley.
A man died and two other people were wounded in a shooting in northwest Las Vegas following a dispute among roommates.
Refuge for Women is a national organization designed to help survivors of sex trafficking. The Las Vegas branch opened in 2015.
Officers are trying to determine whether a suspect in three sexual assaults at gunpoint in August and September victimized other women.
Nevada’s two public universities experienced spikes in reports of sexual, domestic and dating violence incidents from 2017 to 2018, according to a report to be presented this week to the Board of Regents.
Kirk Hooten, a recently retired Las Vegas police officer, admitted he thought a 16-year-old girl he allegedly tried to force into his vehicle was a “hooker,” according to his arrest report.
Luis Angel Vicente Martir Gudiel, 27, who brought the 14-year-old Arizona girl to the city in 2018, was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison.
A Las Vegas couple has been charged with sexually assaulting a young girl and filming the abuse, according to a recently released arrest report.
Clark County School District police arrested Joshua Youngblood after reviewing social media messages he allegedly exchanged with a minor student.
The suspect, Luther Walker, 52, is facing sexual assault charges in the attacks — one in 2000 and one in 2014.
The owner of Battle Born Jiu Jitsu studio in the northwest valley was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of child sex crimes, according to police and court records.
A man known as a Las Vegas “neighborhood babysitter” faces additional child sex abuse charges Thursday afternoon.
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Colin Czech is accused of killing a man outside a downtown convenience store and eating parts of the victim’s face, police said.
Shiva Gummi was arrested in April 2023 after he told a 911 dispatcher he had killed his wife, who was a new doctor at University Medical Center.
Nicholas Bott, 44, had been facing a felony charge of child abuse and a gross misdemeanor count of contact with a minor.
An 18-year-old was taken into custody after police said he was “doing donuts in the grass area” of a Henderson park.