Rita Colon, a 44-year-old extradited from Peru in late October, pleaded not guilty Tuesday in one of two Las Vegas Valley cases where she has been charged with murder.
Stabbings
Rita Colon, who is charged in two deaths more than a decade apart, appeared in a Henderson courtroom Tuesday for the first time since being extradited from Peru.
Patrol cars could be seen Monday at an apartment complex on West Sahara Avenue, a day after a resident reportedly confronted a speeding driver and was killed .
A man suspected of stabbing a Las Vegas police dog in the neck during a barricade Saturday morning faces seven felony counts, according to jail and court records.
A man was killed at the Indian Hills Apartments after he confronted the driver of a car for driving fast through the complex where kids were playing.
The Clark County coroner’s office identified the 37-year-old woman fatally shot by Henderson police after she allegedly stabbed her 7-year-old son on Monday.
Months before an indictment was unsealed, a top prosecutor in the Nevada attorney general’s office recommended not filing criminal charges in a prison killing.
Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they plan to seek the death penalty for two of the 23 defendants tied to a violent white supremacist prison gang in Nevada.
A woman awoke early Tuesday inside her apartment to find another woman on top of her “stabbing her repeatedly,” according to Las Vegas police.
Officers said a woman called 911 early Thursday to report her son had stabbed her and then fled the scene.
After 33 years on Nevada’s death row, Paul Browning was released Wednesday morning from Ely State Prison.