A Las Vegas police officer was arrested Wednesday on several charges stemming from accusations that while on duty in 2011 he stopped two women in separate cases and coerced them into exposing their breasts.
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Developer and gaming lobbyist Harvey Whittemore fired back at his former business partners Wednesday by filing his own multimillion-dollar lawsuit, accusing them of making death threats, racketeering and extortion. Whittemore is seeking $60 million from Thomas Seeno, Albert Seeno Jr., and Albert Seeno III, alleging they defrauded him through their partnership, which oversees the languishing Coyote Springs community and other companies.
A man who shot and wounded a police detective Wednesday and was killed by officers’ return fire was a murder suspect with a lengthy criminal history, sources said. Jason Baires, 23, was a suspect in the beating death of a man Tuesday afternoon. He also had several prior convictions for possession of drugs and stolen goods, court records show.
Two teenagers involved in a paintball shooting spree were confronted in court Tuesday by one of their victims: a 73-year-old Henderson man who relies on a pacemaker to keep his heart beating normally. Afterwards the were sentenced to juvenile facilities.
Police say a man was shot and seriously wounded Tuesday near the downtown area after he swung a knife at an officer. The man, who was in critical condition at University Medical Center, was jaywalking across Fremont Street. He ran into a motel when two officers in a patrol car stopped him. One officer followed him in.
Dr. Dipak Desai, at the center of the hepatitis C outbreak, is faking his physical disabilities to obstruct the criminal case against him, a prosecutor argued Tuesday.
A 73-year-old man was sentenced to probation Tuesday and ordered to pay $90,000 in restitution after having lived 32 years under an assumed identity. Arthur Gerald Jones was declared dead 25 years ago.
A Las Vegas man was sentenced to two years in prison Tuesday for his role in a sweeping scheme to steal $4.4 million in state and federal unemployment benefits. Efrain Garcia, 41, was the first of four men who pleaded guilty in the scam.
Brandon Snowden was supposed to throw away three bags of shredded, potentially incriminating documents from the office files of attorney Brian Bloomfield following a police raid in April 2010.
It wasn’t an easy few weeks for Las Vegas cabdrivers. Between Dec. 30 and Jan. 16, drivers were robbed, beaten and shot at in a series of seven robberies that police say were conducted by a brazen group of teenage gangsters.