A 25-page complaint alleges the City of North Las Vegas, its police department and jail employees or contractors failed to protect the inmate from the known risk of exposure to fentanyl.
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Edgar Flores, D-Las Vegas, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he was found asleep at a traffic light on North Lamb and East Lake Mead boulevards at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12, according to police.
The defendant, accused of wielding a machete, was shot by a constable and appeared in court with his face bloody and bandaged.
Terry Sylvanie was arrested Dec. 19, and Las Vegas police said he was on house arrest last week.
California Highway Patrol troopers arrested the 21-year-old one day after police say he shot and killed a man in the central valley. Now, he’s an inmate at the Clark County Detention Center.
Thieves in Elko are taking an especially destructive route to stealing residents’ gas — drilling holes in the gas tanks.
A woman pleaded guilty to committing two felony counts of insurance fraud where she received more than $30,000, according to the Nevada attorney general’s office.
Another California court date has been set for former Nevada Assemblyman Steven Brooks on charges stemming from a car chase and police confrontation in March.
Gregory Hover’s life now rests in the hands of 12 jurors. During closing arguments Thursday, prosecutors argued that Hover should be sentenced to death for killing two people during a crime spree in 2010.
Las Vegas police seek to identify a suspect of a crime that took place in January on Paradise Road near Tropicana Avenue.
The indictment states that Holmes and his partners obtained “mortgage loans by fraudulent means to buy houses,” from 2006 to 2009.
A single-vehicle crash Thursday night in North Las Vegas turned into a homicide investigation.
During her year and a half as a registered nurse at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada, Peggy Tagle watched about a dozen patients undergo colonoscopies without first being sedated.
The accused getaway driver in a brazen 2011 armed robbery of a Pai Gow table at the Rio will spend at least a couple more years behind bars.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday said Las Vegas police officer and former sheriff’s candidate Laurie Bisch was properly disciplined for misrepresenting the identity of her daughter’s friend in a 2008 dog bite incident.
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The Metropolitan Police Department provided more details about a pair of January police shootings.
Las Vegas police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of burglarizing a home in Summerlin in December.
Police said T’Shawn Allen, 27, stole hundreds of dollars from businesses such as Pink Box Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Pretty Soul Kitchen and caused potentially thousands in damages over a two-day theft spree.
Devyn Michaels was found guilty by a jury after a sensational trial in November. The victim was her on-and-off boyfriend.
