Adolph Vargas, one of five defendants indicted in the 2008 kidnapping of 6-year-old Cole Puffinburger, pleaded guilty to drug and money laundering charges Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas. Four other defendants, including two men charged with abducting the boy from his home over a drug deal gone bad, are to stand trial next week.
A former North Las Vegas police officer has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for fabricating a story 11 months ago that his badge saved his life after it stopped a suspect’s bullet.
An attempted robbery in a North Las Vegas Walmart parking lot Tuesday afternoon ended with the intended victim shooting at the robber, North Las Vegas police said. The shooting occurred about 3:20 p.m. at a store at 3950 W. Lake Mead Blvd., near Rancho Drive.
Heavy-metal rocker Vince Neil must spend two weeks behind bars and another two weeks on hours arrest for a drunken driving charge the 49-year-old picked up in June, according to a plea deal.
One year ago Saturday, a Clark County School District administrator was allegedly masturbating in his office, sending the images over the Internet to a viewer he thought to be a 13-year-old girl.
A man died from multiple gunshot wounds and a woman was wounded Saturday at a Las Vegas apartment complex after a confrontation with several men who got out of a compact car, exchanged words with the victims and then opened fire, Las Vegas police said.
A two-time felon unwittingly laid out the details of the death plot involving high-profile lawyer Nancy Quon to a man he thought was a fellow criminal, but who was really an undercover cop. Transcripts of grand jury testimony by the detective, who secretly tape-recorded his conversations with Robert Justice, shed new light on the bizarre murder conspiracy case.
The key defendant convicted in a federal sting in which the conspirators planned a violent robbery of a non-existent cocaine stash house was sentenced Friday to more than 17 years in prison.
