Courts
Heidi Jordan is facing prison time and the loss of her job as a special education teacher for failing to act on information that two of her students brought a semiautomatic handgun to Mojave High School.
A Las Vegas police officer will stand trial for charges related to a May police pursuit that left one person dead and another injured. Aron Carpenter faces one count each of felony reckless driving and misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter for his role in the pursuit that ended with the death of 26-year-old Ivan Carrillo.
Adolph Vargas, one of five defendants indicted in the 2008 kidnapping of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger, pleaded guilty to drug and money laundering charges Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas. Four other defendants, including two men charged with abducting the boy from his home over a drug deal gone bad, are to stand trial next week.
A former North Las Vegas police officer has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for fabricating a story 11 months ago that his badge saved his life after it stopped a suspect’s bullet.
An attempted robbery in a North Las Vegas Walmart parking lot Tuesday afternoon ended with the intended victim shooting at the robber, North Las Vegas police said. The shooting occurred about 3:20 p.m. at a store at 3950 W. Lake Mead Blvd., near Rancho Drive.
Heavy-metal rocker Vince Neil must spend two weeks behind bars and another two weeks on hours arrest for a drunken driving charge the 49-year-old picked up in June, according to a plea deal.
Don’t blame the Bellagio — it could have happened to anyone. The brazen Tuesday morning robbery that netted $1.5 million in gambling chips from one of the Strip’s most luxurious casinos didn’t succeed because of security failures, said Lt. Clint Nichols, who oversees the Metropolitan Police Department’s robbery section.
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