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.
A Mesquite woman was sentenced to one year in prison Monday after pleading guilty to several fraud and obstruction charges. Shawnanna Flores, 36, had raised hundreds of dollars for her 7-year-old son whom she said had liver cancer.
A Pahrump lawyer who was shot by Las Vegas police five years ago during a traffic stop is running to be Clark County’s top prosecutor. Raymond James “Jim” Duensing filed to run for district attorney on Friday noting that he would stop prosecuting nonviolent crimes, including traffic tickets, if elected.
Gary Casupang, 59, faces charges of battery, domestic violence, coercion, and two counts of kidnapping. Casupang was being held Monday in Clark County Detention Center on $400,000 bail.
There are better ways to kick off a new job as an armed security officer than to be sentenced in federal court in an excessive force case.
A man who died after being trapped in a burning house in West Las Vegas last week was also stabbed several times, the Review-Journal has learned.
Cristian Ivan Diaz, 20, was sentenced Monday in Las Vegas District Court to 8- to 20-years in prison for a Jan. 1, 2013, that killed 18-year-old Jesse Hill and hurt Hill’s 16-year-old girlfriend.
Police booked Edward Edgerton, 26, into Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder, according to an arrest report. His girlfriend, 24-year-old Tyanna Reynolds, was pronounced dead Saturday. The Clark County Coroner’s office ruled Reynolds’s death a homicide.
Noah Lane Allen’s early March drowning was not the first time child welfare investigators had heard the 3-year-old’s name. The Clark County Department of Family Services was called twice about Noah in December, according to a report.
Las Vegas police asked the public for help Monday in finding a man involved in a robbery on Feb. 27.
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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.
Roidan Durruthy Mendoza is accused of killing his estranged wife and injuring three others during a shooting at an apartment complex in August.