Courts
Victor Fakoya was a free man. The Nigerian immigrant had spent two years in the Clark County jail, charged with a crime he steadfastly denied.
Prosecutors filed a new criminal complaint Friday adding a felony gun possession charge against one of the three airport technicians accused of stealing electronic gear.
A District Court hearing to install a receiver at the World Market Center’s Building A was called off as unnecessary.
Dr. Dipak Desai, the bankrupt gastroenterologist at the heart of the hepatitis C outbreak, has piled up $2.4 million in legal fees that are cutting deep into the dwindling assets left for his creditors, including the thousands of former patients suing him.
A Henderson police lieutenant arrested in a prostitution sting last year has apparently been demoted after pleading guilty in the case.
Lionel Collins III, 21, was sentenced Wednesday to 18 years to life in prison for the 2009 Thanksgiving Day slaying of McClain Kenton Zornes, 19, outside a northwest valley CVS Pharmacy.