The city of Las Vegas said from Feb. 1 to this week, the city has had 10 copper wire thefts from municipal infrastructure. Previously, the city averaged about 20 such thefts a year.
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Authorities said they found 183 frozen animals, and a man admitted to placing some of them in the freezer when they were still alive.
Police did not name the park where the 31-year-old man was arrested, but the address is the same as the one listed for Rafael Rivera Park in east Las Vegas.
Charles Jackson, 40, was arrested last week on two counts of second-degree murder in the fentanyl overdose deaths of a mother and son.
Ladell Pope, 40, was booked Tuesday at the Clark County Detention Center on charges of felony sex assault and domestic battery by strangulation.
A Henderson woman is at the center of a federal criminal case filed against a CNN producer accused of attempting to lure children online, records show.
A Las Vegas police SWAT unit arrested a man suspected of briefly taking an “innocent person” hostage in a neighborhood near a middle school in southeast Las Vegas on Tuesday.
Las Vegas police were investigating a homicide in the downtown corridor early Tuesday in which a man was stabbed in the neck during an altercation.
A woman is accused of extorting $12 million from a Las Vegas businessman, and authorities have gone to great lengths to conceal the man’s identity.
Police say street racing has become more prevalent in Southern Nevada, and authorities are accelerating efforts to bring it to a stop.
Officers responded at 4:45 a.m. to a report of a shooting on Wynn Road at Pioneer Avenue and found a man in critical condition with gunshot wound.
A man has been arrested on a warrant charging him with murder in a 2020 slaying in central Las Vegas.
A Las Vegas man has been arrested in the death of a puppy found hanging from a fence on Tuesday.
A van driver accused of killing a man by intentionally running over him in a northeast Las Vegas parking lot did so because he was tired of the victim’s “trash talking,” a witness told police.
A Las Vegas man who police say shot and killed another man in downtown Las Vegas in May followed the victim home from a North Las Vegas casino, police said.
Clark County prosecutors are seeking to extradite the California woman arrested in Denver last week, accused of killing her son and disposing of his body in Southern Nevada.
The man was arrested after authorities accused him of stealing copper products from Lowe’s stores, then pawning the items at area recycling centers.
A man was stabbed during an attempted robbery outside The Orleans early Monday.
Nevada law requires police to have specific information about an abductor or a vehicle used in the abduction before an alert can be issued. Police didn’t have either during their search for 2-year-old Amari Nicholson.
A man has been arrested in a Friday morning shooting at a Henderson shopping center, police said.
Las Vegas police said they arrested Chris Okoronkwo, 33, of Las Vegas, at the Cosmopolitan on suspicion of attempted murder, assault, and battery with a deadly weapon.