Two people have been arrested in connection with a double homicide that occurred this month in downtown Las Vegas.
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Two men accused of attempting to rob a Summerlin man at gunpoint were shot and arrested while seeking treatment for their wounds, according to Metropolitan Police Department arrest reports.
A 27-year-old man was arrested in connection with a series of commercial burglary series that occurred throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
Police said two men face attempted murder charges after one of them, upset about the gravy he received with his order, went behind the counter to confront employees.
Las Vegas police said Jamon Hawkins, 21, was arrested Monday and booked into the San Bernardino County Detention Center to await extradition on a charge of open murder.
The Metropolitan Police Department uses deadly force at a higher rate than many other urban police agencies, according to a Review-Journal analysis
Want detailed information on how many people were shot by police in the United States last year? That’s not so easy to find.
Las Vegas police were involved in 17 shootings in 2003. Ten subjects were black, an unusually high number even for a department that historically shoots a disproportionate number of minorities. None of the officers were black.
An early-morning shooting outside of a strip club left one person dead and a second wounded on Sunday, Las Vegas police said.
Vistana homeowners are mounting a letter-writing campaign in federal court seeking restitution for the millions of dollars they say they lost in a massive scheme to take over homeowners associations around the Las Vegas Valley.
They serve and protect. And sometimes they shoot and kill. Las Vegas Valley police have been involved in 378 shootings since 1990, 142 of them fatal. One agency alone, the Metropolitan Police Department, was responsible for 310 shootings and 115 deaths.
The homicide investigation and coroner’s inquest that followed her son’s 1999 shooting death left Connie Perrin angry and dissatisfied, so she sought emotional and financial redress in federal court.
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The lawsuit suggested that former Metropolitan Police Department Capt. John Pelletier helped to cover up a 2018 sexual assault and that he kidnapped witnesses.
A Clark County Detention Center inmate who was found dead inside a cell with an imprisoned Discovery Channel reality show star has been identified.
Metro Lt. Robert Price said a man was shot and killed during an argument with an group of people who then fled the scene. Their whereabouts are currently unknown, Price said.
A son killed both his mother and father in the east Las Vegas Valley according to a release from the Metropolitan Police Department.
