The Nevada Division of Investigation should investigate Boulder City’s chief of police, the City Council decided Tuesday. Chief Thomas Finn is accused of ordering officers to delete emails to hide them from a possible public records request. Destroying a public record is a felony in Nevada.
A jury late Tuesday began deliberating the fate of Ralph Conti, a Henderson pediatrician, and Alfred Sapse, an 86-year-old medical researcher, charged with defrauding chronically ill patients through an experimental stem cell implant procedure. Conti, 51, has been practicing medicine here since 1990, and Sapse is a Romanian-educated physician not licensed in the United States.
Khoi Pham, 36, of California is suing Las Vegas police and an officer who “slammed” him to the floor of the Clark County Detention Center last year. Video of the Oct. 2, 2011, incident shows jail guard Sean Berndt walking up to a handcuffed Pham and pushing him back into a chair. One of Pham’s legs swings up, possibly striking the officer.
Emmanouil “Manny” Varagiannis, operator of a large escort service, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on a charge of unlawfully structuring roughly $2.4 million in transactions to evade financial reporting requirements. Varagiannis, 42, also the former general manager of the Olympic Garden strip club, faces a Dec. 7 arraignment.
A U.S. Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge Tuesday the government is close to charging the last round of defendants in an investigation into corruption at Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations. The long-running investigation so far has resulted in the convictions of 27 people.
The Las Vegas Township constable’s office is being sued by an insurance company in connection with a wrongful termination lawsuit involving two former deputies.
WASHINGTON – U.S. regulators on Monday sued Intrade, the online prediction market that gained popularity as an informal oddsmaker for the presidential election, saying it illegally let customers bet on future economic data, the price of gold and even acts of war.
As the holiday season approaches, volunteer citizens patrol with the North Las Vegas Police Department are on high alert.
