Nearly five months after the shooting, the Metropolitan Police Department arrested Alexander Johnson, citing new evidence showed he had misrepresented the events leading up to the shooting.
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Frederick Blanche pleaded guilty to murder and attempted murder charges in December and agreed to a long sentence.
Police said they received reports of a shooting in the 1800 block of Lewis Avenue. One man died at the scene and another died at a hospital.
Police investigated an incident in which a man was struck by a vehicle and a “blunt object” during an altercation in a Las Vegas neighborhood.
Emmy Award-winning actor Timothy Busfield was ordered held without bond at his first court appearance Wednesday, a day after turning himself in to face charges of child sex abuseBusfield has vowed to fight the charges.
The 6-foot-1-inch body of the baby-faced teen was found in a storm drain in the southwest valley. He was riddled with bullets. On the evening of April 28, 2008, it didn’t take Las Vegas police long to figure out 17-year-old Joseph Lopez lay dead in a drain tunnel near the Las Vegas Beltway and Tropicana Avenue.
A 22-year-old man will be charged with two counts of murder in the Martinez family slayings and two counts of sexual assault, Las Vegas police announced at a late-night news conference Friday, confirming an earlier Review-Journal report.
Real estate investor Stephen Siegel at least temporarily fended off investors attempting to oust him from management of two Siegel Suites locations.
The Nevada Supreme Court on Thursday added teeth to the state’s Foreclosure Mediation Program by ruling that a deal signed after a foreclosure mediation session could be enforced even if there were shortcomings with some of the lender’s documents.
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who attacked two women in the central valley in separate incidents this month. One of the women was sexually assaulted.
A woman acquitted of murder in the fatal shooting of her ex-husband 20 years ago in Florida pleaded not guilty Thursday to three felonies in the shooting of her adult son last summer in their Summerlin home.
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A news release said the strike force would involve collaboration with other agencies. Attorneys offered mixed reactions.
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.
Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
