A heat-of-the-moment comment in the aftermath of the standoff at Cliven Bundy’s ranch has cost two Las Vegas SWAT officers their jobs on the elite unit.
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The adult son of a Nevada rancher who hosted armed protesters against federal agents in a cattle roundup dispute in April acknowledged Monday that he faces arrest in a separate criminal case stemming from his felony conviction on burglary and weapon charges.
Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie, speaking to a Review-Journal editorial board Thursday, recounted the mistakes made by both sides before an April 12 standoff between armed protesters and the Bureau of Land Management on Cliven Bundy’s Bunkerville cattle ranch.
The couple that killed two Las Vegas police officers earlier this month planned to ambush more police, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Monday.
Las Vegas police officers had contact with Jerad and Amanda Miller days before they ambushed and executed two officers and killed a citizen, officials said at a Wednesday morning news conference.
No one knows exactly what triggered Jerad and Amanda Miller’s weekend shooting rampage, but analysts are studying links between the violence with extremism and the Bunkerville standoff.
Jerad Miller didn’t die on his own terms after all, the Review-Journal has learned. It was a Las Vegas police officer — not Amanda Miller, his wife — who fired the shot that ended the life of the 31-year-old cop killer, according to an official with knowledge of the case.
A man and woman thought to have ambushed two Las Vegas police officers and to have killed a bystander before committing suicide left behind swastikas and told neighbors they wanted to kill police.
The day after a shooting left five dead, including two police officers, election candidates reveal that the suspects tried to cozy up to them during the months leading up to Election Day. Campaign information for a gubernatorial candidate and a candidate for sheriff was reportedly found in the shooters’ apartment.
Before going on a shooting rampage that left five people dead, including two Las Vegas police officers and themselves, Jared and Amanda Miller displayed the classic ideological leanings of the anti-government patriot movement, according to nationally known experts who track extremist groups.