A news release said the strike force would involve collaboration with other agencies. Attorneys offered mixed reactions.
Crime
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The Nevada Department of Corrections announced two inmate deaths on Wednesday: one at Southern Desert Correctional Center and one at High Desert State Prison.
Michael McKee, 39, was arrested Saturday by police in Rockford, Illinois, and remains in custody at the Winnebago County Justice Center, according to Winnebago County Sheriff’s Office online records.
Bryan Vargas-Caicedo previously pleaded guilty in District Court to reckless driving and, in a lower court, to misdemeanor DUI in connection with the death of 37-year-old Wesley Larsen.
A man was found dead Tuesday night at a business south of the Arts District.
Recent grand jury testimony is shedding more light on the beef between Henderson councilwomen Carrie Cox and Monica Larson.
Las Vegas police are investigating a homicide Thursday morning that left a man dead in the southeast valley.
A police detective testified Wednesday that a woman accused of killing her on-and-off boyfriend indicated she disposed of his head in the trash.
Dispatchers received a call at 1:50 p.m. from an unidentified victim who said “multiple suspects armed with a firearm” had taken their vehicle, Metro said in an email.
Randy Katz, 60, was taken into custody Friday on one felony count of willful or malicious torture of an animal, according to the Henderson Police Department.
Detective Kari Skinner and another detective visited Devyn Michaels’ house the afternoon after Johnathan Willette’s body was found, according to witness testimony.
A shooting on southbound Interstate 11 between Flamingo Road and Tropicana Avenue sent one person to a local hospital Monday after being shot, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
The case contributed to a push for harsher DUI penalties and drew public attention to the issue of traffic safety near schools.
The woman’s ex-boyfriend shot at her vehicle on Boulder Highway near Galleria Drive on March 8, hitting the boy in the leg, her attorney said.
The mother of a man found decapitated in Henderson testified Friday about discovering her son’s body and noticing, days later, that a large knife had disappeared from her kitchen.
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Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
The fourth grade teacher told police that he had a crush on his student and gave into his urges to touch the boy by grabbing his genitals, according to his arrest report.
A man accused of stealing a construction vehicle from a worksite in Henderson and ramming it into two police SUVs earlier this month was appointed a public defender on Tuesday.
Antwone Washington was a coach and campus security officer before he was accused of having a sexual relationship with a student.
