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.
North Las Vegas police have not yet dropped Patrick Harper, 16, as a suspect in a North Las Vegas shooting that led to the teen being jailed. Harper was released Tuesday when evidence surfaced showing it was unlikely he was at the scene of the shooting.
A Las Vegas mother accused of throwing two of her children out of a second-story window was found competent to stand trial Friday.
A 26-year-old woman must stand trial on grand larceny charges that she stole a $35,000 Rolex Presidential watch from a man during a naked $300 massage.
A private investigator working on what’s become a botched murder case sought evidence North Las Vegas police didn’t: video from the suspect’s alibi.
Jonathan Koppenhaver, the former Bellator MMA and Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter known as War Machine, was back in a Las Vegas courtroom Tuesday.
Local and federal narcotics detectives confiscated about $200,000 worth of marijuana plants Thursday in the southwest valley, Las Vegas police said.
A small Henderson casino has been robbed twice this summer, and investigators there note a man involved in each holdup was wearing a fedora. And it could have been the same guy, Henderson police said.
Las Vegas police are looking for someone who robbed an employee inside Palace Station on Sunday night.
A former Las Vegas stripper was sentenced to between five and 15 years in prison Tuesday for a 2013 DUI crash that killed a man and injured his toddler son. Shauna Miller, 28, crashed a 2003 Hummer into a 1997 Ford Escort driven by 33-year-old James White, who was killed. His 2-year-old son suffered minor injuries.
Gloria Lee, the woman facing dozens of animal cruelty charges in the Prince and Princess Pet Boutique fire, has been granted a temporary reprieve from house arrest.
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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.