Police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Stanley Gibson received the most severe penalties for a police shooting in the history of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
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The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday said Las Vegas police officer and former sheriff’s candidate Laurie Bisch was properly disciplined for misrepresenting the identity of her daughter’s friend in a 2008 dog bite incident.
A modern-day abolitionist movement that includes Las Vegas law enforcement officials, the state attorney general’s office, legislators and grass-roots activists wants to reclassify the pimps who dominate the world’s oldest profession as modern-day slave traders.
It was strange, people said, a grown man inviting high school boys to his home for free booze and a dip in the hot tub.
Inmates in the Metropolitan Police Department’s house arrest program aren’t confined within the walls of the Clark County Detention Center.
A 71-year-old man was killed Monday morning after he crashed a car into a brick wall.
Like infinite numbers of women before her, Heather Robbins came to Las Vegas with a bit of luggage and a big dream: to someday become a showgirl; or at the very least, to dance in a strip club and maybe work her way up by catching the attention of somebody influential.
Pretty polka-dot bows on top of heads, GPS monitors on the ankles. Teenagers having babies, then leaving them at home with grandma so they can make money on the streets, in motel suites.
Marc Schifalacqua, a Clark County prosecutor, has put plenty of pimps behind bars for pandering girls and women. He’s the first to say that Las Vegas is one big revolving door for pimps who commonly receive light sentences even if they abuse prostitutes or pander minors.
Benjamin Kyker is very familiar with the Nevada prisons system, but the veteran prison guard could soon be bunking with the kind of men he’s been guarding.
An FBI agent was likely struck by shrapnel, but wasn’t shot, while arresting a California murder suspect in Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Las Vegas police were investigating a woman’s death Tuesday morning. Her body was found about 11 a.m. on the 8000 block of Green Pasture Avenue, near Lone Mountain and Cimarron roads in the northwest valley.
A viewing has been set for Thursday afternoon for Marcos Vicente Arenas, the 15-year-old killed while hanging onto his iPad during an attempted robbery last week. On the same day, the two men charged in his death will appear in Las Vegas Justice Court to argue their bail and set a preliminary hearing on murder charges.
In the days after a teenage boy was run over during an attempted iPad robbery, one of the suspects spent his time covering up the evidence. Jacob Dismont, 18, changed tires, added fake license plates and covered the Ford Explorer with stickers in an effort to conceal the car used in the death of 15-year-old Marcos Arenas, according to a Las Vegas police report.
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