A violent gang member was found guilty Friday of murder in a slaying that happened shortly after he was released from jail at the request of an FBI-led task force.
Courts
A Clark County judge was apologetic Thursday before ordering a young man to spend at least 10 years behind bars for the murder of his father.
A North Las Vegas man was sentenced Monday to a minimum of 16 years and a maximum of 45 years in prison after pleading guilty in May to second-degree murder with a deadly weapon in the 2014 shooting death of Roland Pleasant.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Thursday to 12 years in prison in connection with the death of a man during a 2013 drug deal, officials said.
A Las Vegas jury sentenced a 62-year-old man to death Wednesday for ordering his sixth wife dead and then killing the hit man.
DeMarlo Berry was released from state custody around 6 a.m. Friday after spending 22 years in prison for murder. Another man has confessed to the crime.
A Las Vegas man facing the death penalty for ordering his sixth wife dead and killing the hit man was wearing blue jeans and a Tony Romo jersey Friday as he waited in a courthouse holding cell.
Convicted double murderer Thomas Randolph, who lived for decades off the proceeds of dead wives, has a narcissitic personality but is not a sociopath, a psychiatrist testified Thursday about the flagrant philanderer six times wed.
Michael James Miller wasn’t wearing a black ski mask when he was executed after killing Thomas Randolph’s sixth wife, Sharon, inside the couple’s home, prosecutors said Monday in Randolph’s double murder trial.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys rested their cases on Friday in the double murder trial of Thomas Randolph. Should jurors convict 62-year-old Randolph of first-degree murder, the panel is expected to decide his punishment. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
Prosecutors launched the evidence portion of Thomas Randolph’s trial on charges that he hired a hitman to kill his wife in 2008 before fatally shooting the hitman by telling jurors about the 1986 death of Randolph’s second wife, Becky Gault.
A North Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in a February 2012 murder.
Roland Bueno Cardenas, 55, of Las Vegas is accused of killing Gary Breitling, 57, of Sidney, Montana, on March 25 while getting off the tour bus in front of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
Opening arguments began Thursday in trial of Shaun Leflore, who is accused of murder in his girlfriend’s 2006 death, originally ruled a suicide.
Cheryl Rheamount endured abuse at the hands of her boyfriend before she shot and killed him in self-defense with a handgun she had hidden under the seat of her car, a prosecutor said Wednesday.