Las Vegas investor and purported billionaire Jay Bloom is accused of taking money from investors to fund a cryptocurrency mining scheme in Arizona that he knew was not viable, according to a recent lawsuit.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
A bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Susie Lee would put the weight of the federal government behind efforts to prosecute criminals taking part in organized retail theft.
Two-year-old Jacoby Robinson Jr. was last seen about 7:45 p.m. Thursday near Lewis Avenue and South 15th Street.
Prosecutors have dropped a slew of felony charges against a former member of a notorious Las Vegas gang, closing a case that has stretched on for more than three years.
Rotesha Shanek Battle, 47, faces a charge of open murder, according to police booking records.
It occurred at the Citrus Apartments, 60 N Pecos Road, around 10:45 p.m., Las Vegas police said.
Las Vegas police announced an arrest Thursday of a suspect in the stabbing deaths of two women near UNLV.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the cause of death for Mason Dominguez, a child whose body was found dead in the freezer of an east Las Vegas home in February.
The 2-year-old daughter of a man who was fatally shot last week in east Las Vegas was also struck by gunfire, police said.
Angel Montano was fatally shot at a house party on July 3 near East Wyoming Avenue and Nellis Boulevard.
Las Vegas police say a man arrested in an east Las Vegas slaying is now a suspect in a second homicide in the same neighborhood.
A knife-wielding man had a chance to walk away after a man who was trying to disarm him lost his balance and fell in central Las Vegas, according to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Two people have been charged with murder in a 2021 convenience store slaying that Las Vegas police say unfolded during an argument over a woman cutting in line at the store.
A pedestrian was killed Monday night after a crash on Boulder Highway in Henderson.
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A woman was being held hostage at knife-point by a man when two Metropolitan Police Department officers fired their weapons late Saturday night.
Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who is accused of killing Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, appeared in court again.
A 15-year-old was fatally shot in the northeast valley during what Las Vegas police described as a “drug transaction.”
The discovery was made about 9:40 p.m. in a neighborhood near Wetlands Park, police said.