Federal authorities say Josiah Kenyon, 34, of Winnemucca attacked police and broke into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as lawmakers were certifying the presidential election.
Local Nevada
Your trusted Nevada news source. Discover local updates, breaking news and headlines for Nevada here.
Day two of a three-day evidentiary hearing regarding Nevada’s plan to execute death row inmate Zane Floyd began Wednesday morning in federal court.
One witness said investigators were “very interested in whether the police planned to benefit financially and were promised anything in return for their endorsement.”
Nevada’s death row houses 64 inmates. Some of them have killed multiple people, including children. Others ended the lives of elderly victims. Some shot police officers or strangers, while others stabbed someone they knew.
Nevada’s death row houses 64 convicted killers, all men, most of whom have been awaiting execution for more than two decades.
A Pahrump man testified Thursday that an acquaintance, one of three people charged with torturing and fatally shooting a Las Vegas man, asked for help following the killing in August.
Within days, Nevada prison officials could finalize their execution protocol and disclose the lethal injection cocktail planned for the capital punishment of Zane Floyd.
On Sunday, police released a “digitally enhanced picture” of the boy. Police said due to the location of the body, the boy may have lived in Las Vegas, Pahrump, Baker, Calif., or other nearby cities.
Data from Las Vegas police shows there were 57 percent fewer recruits last year compared with 2019, and many other local police departments showed a similar trend.
A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company’s Nevada electric battery plant in a bid to steal company secrets for ransom.
A recently published report shows that a primary caregiver’s partner — typically a mother’s boyfriend — was identified as the suspect in more than half of child abuse and neglect cases in Clark County in fiscal 2016.
The Nevada Legislature is considering a bill that would require any police officer who interacts with the public to be equipped with a body camera.
At the root of the issue is the state’s consumer protection statutes that limit title loans to 210 days and prohibit a loan to exceed the fair market value of the vehicle.
Marcel and Patricia Chappuis originally faced 45 counts each of child abuse or neglect — a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Nevada after finding that the state’s prison system has discriminated against inmates with HIV and other disabilities.
