The Metropolitan Police Department needs to make changes following an agency record 12 fatal officer-involved shootings so far this year, former Clark County Sheriff Bill Young said Thursday.
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Clark County Sheriff Doug Gillespie would support a federal investigation into Las Vegas police shootings, he said Thursday, lending weight to recent calls by civil rights groups for such a probe.
Federal jurors who faulted the courtroom demeanor of one defendant and the competency of an expert witness returned guilty verdicts Thursday against three people in a lengthy trial involving multimillion-dollar mortgage fraud.
District Attorney David Roger has fired the prosecutor who became romantically involved with Family Court Judge Steven Jones while regularly appearing before the judge.
A fugitive task force arrested a 21-year-old man in Las Vegas this week who was featured on the TV show “America’s Most Wanted,” federal officials said Wednesday.
A man died after being shot Wednesday afternoon, Las Vegas police said. Police spokeswoman Laura Meltzer said at 2:48 p.m. investigators were alerted the man who was shot collapsed inside an apartment at the 4800 block of Spencer Street, near Tropicana Avenue.
Two civil rights groups are calling for the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the Metropolitan Police Department’s use of deadly force in the wake of the fatal shooting of an unarmed veteran and a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation into police shootings.
The Las Vegas police officer who shot and killed a disabled war veteran Monday had a lengthy history of citizen complaints and internal discipline, sources told the Review-Journal on Tuesday.