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A Las Vegas police officer under investigation for a videotaped beating of a man has been suspended with pay pending completion of an internal investigation, police said Saturday.
A jury Friday found a Los Angeles Police Department officer not guilty on all counts stemming from a sexual assault allegation during a Las Vegas vacation last year.
Mitchell Crooks was arrested March 20 for battery on a police officer. The charges have been dropped, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has opened an internal investigation into the Las Vegas police officer who arrested him.
A second suspect in a Las Vegas cab driver’s slaying in March has been arrested in Florida, Las Vegas police said Friday.
The man who died in a shootout with Las Vegas police officers Tuesday served more than 13 years in Nevada prisons for a second-degree murder charge in the 1990s.
