IN BRIEF
OREGON SHOOTING
Attempted homicide fugitive arrested
U.S. marshals on Tuesday in Las Vegas arrested a fugitive wanted in Oregon for attempted homicide.
Troy Sean Mott, 20, is wanted by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Department to face charges of pistol-whipping and shooting a woman in Portland, according to U.S. marshals in Nevada.
Mott escaped Oregon police after fleeing by car and on foot, according to a Nov. 20 warrant for his arrest.
Authorities in Nevada learned that Mott was staying in an apartment near Jones Boulevard and U.S. Highway 95 in Las Vegas and put him under surveillance.
Mott remained in Clark County Detention Center without bail Tuesday night pending extradition.
LAKE MEAD AND HOLLYWOOD
Police seek suspect in sexual assault
Police are looking for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman after she asked him for help on Nov. 15.
The woman had thought someone was inside her home near East Lake Mead and North Hollywood boulevards and asked the suspect to help her check inside the residence, police said. Once inside her home, the man sexually assaulted the woman, police said.
The suspect is a Hispanic male estimated to be 17 to 20 years old and between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 7 inches tall. He has a mustache, short hair and full-sleeve tattoos on both arms, police said. He was last seen wearing brown shorts, sandals and a blue shirt.
Anyone with information can call Las Vegas police's sexual assault unit at 828-3421 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.
APARTMENT FIRE
Exploded oxygen tank found near body
A man killed in a fire in his studio apartment last week was identified as 69-year-old Warren Talbert Clark.
Clark's apartment, the Sunrise Vista Motel on Charleston Boulevard, near Pecos Road, was gutted by the fire Friday morning. The cause was unknown, but investigators believe Clark was smoking while using a medical oxygen tank.
Although no cigarettes were found, the remains of an exploded tank were found on the bed next to him, and people who live in the complex told investigators he had a history of smoking with an oxygen tank, said Tim Szymanksi, a spokesman with the Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.
U.S. 95 FATALITY
Rollover accident victim identified
A man killed Sunday when his sport-utility vehicle rolled off U.S. Highway 95 was identified as 23-year-old Michael Anthony Montijo of Las Vegas.
He was thrown from his Chevrolet Trailblazer after he lost control about 9:30 a.m. and it rolled down an embankment near Ann Road, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
Montijo was not wearing a seat belt, authorities said.
GARFIELD, UTAH
Las Vegas man enters insanity plea in death
A Las Vegas man charged in a Utah shooting that left a 45-year-old man paralyzed has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity.
Jasson Hines, 24, was charged with 15 criminal counts, including attempted murder and attempted kidnapping, in the August shooting of Tracy Armstrong at Panguitch Lake.
Garfield County Attorney's Office spokeswoman Becki Bronson says Hines has already been found competent to stand trial by state doctors.
Hines is also requesting a change of venue for the trial, which is scheduled for late January in Garfield County, in south-central Utah.
NUCLEAR SITE CONTAMINANT
Department of Energy fined $500,000
Washington state fined the U.S. Department of Energy $500,000 on Tuesday for a radioactive hazardous waste spill at the nation's most contaminated nuclear site.
The spill occurred July 27, when workers at south-central Washington's Hanford nuclear reservation were pumping waste from an underground tank. They tried to unblock a pump by running it in reverse, but 85 gallons of waste spilled onto the ground.
