IN BRIEF
FRIDAY NIGHT SHOOTING
Three wounded at North Las Vegas party
North Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting at a house party that left three people wounded Friday night.
Police said a 15-year-old girl, a 19-year-old man and a 23-year-old man were taken to University Medical Center. The 23-year-old, a Las Vegas man, had serious injuries. The other two victims' injuries were not life-threatening.
Police said the shooting took place at 10:10 p.m. Friday at a large house party in the 200 block of Patriot Sword Avenue, near Lone Mountain Road and Commerce Street.
Police are not releasing any suspect information.
Anybody with information on the shooting is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 385-5555.
SIXTH RECENT HOMICIDE
Argument ends in man's fatal shooting
A man was fatally shot during a dispute with another man Saturday morning, the sixth homicide in the valley in nine days.
Las Vegas police said they were called to the 600 block of Jackson Avenue, near Owens Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard, about 2:15 a.m.
They found the victim, whose name and age were not released, with a gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at University Medical Center.
Police said the suspect was a tall, heavyset man wearing a blue and green shirt who fled south into the neighborhood.
Six people have been killed in homicides this month, including the May 3 shooting of a 14-year-old boy at a party in east Las Vegas.
Three of the killings have been stabbings.
Police have made arrests in all but Saturday's case.
Anybody with information on the shooting is encouraged to call Crime Stoppers anonymously at 385-5555.
ONLINE SALES
Curator of railroad museum charged
The curator of a timber and railroad history museum in Fortuna, Calif., is under arrest on suspicion of stealing museum property and selling the items on eBay.
City and police officials said Saturday that Robert Newell, 60, curator of the Fortuna Depot Museum, was arrested April 24 and charged with grand theft and possession of stolen property.
Officials did not say what items were taken but said they were worth "several thousands of dollars." Police said Newell confessed to the thefts.
The Humboldt County district attorney reduced Newell's charges to misdemeanors, and he has pleaded not guilty. A pretrial hearing was set for May 24.
FOUR ARRESTS
Police raid two indoor marijuana gardens
Police in San Rafael, Calif., said two women and two men were arrested after officers, responding to tips, found two indoor marijuana gardens.
Jaione Sanz, 33, was arrested Friday after officers searched her house and found 100 marijuana plants. She was being held on suspicion of marijuana cultivation and conspiracy.
Police said they found another 100 plants and cash at a second house and arrested Joshua Isaac Cooper 33; Josephine Billisi, 34; and Demian Gregg, 34.
