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More than three dozens officers were honored Wednesday during the Metropolitan Police Department’s Commendation Ceremony. Five officers received the agency’s “highest honor,” the Medal of Valor.
A 19-year-old man turned himself in to police on Tuesday after he admitted accidentally shooting a friend and dumping her body in the desert.
Retired Las Vegas police Capt. Frank Sutton has struck a deal to plead guilty in the high-profile federal investigation of Las Vegas Valley homeowners associations.
Garrett Vandereecken, a Las Vegas police officer charged with sexually abusing an underage girl, said he was “the one chasing the bad guys and now is the bad guy” during a tense confrontation with the victim’s father last year, according to a police report. The girl told police the abuse began in 2008 on a Memorial Day camping trip when she was 11 years old. She is now 15.
The Nevada Supreme Court has ordered a stay of execution for the dog that killed a 1-year-old Henderson boy. The stops city animal control officials from euthanizing Onion before lawyers fighting to spare him can ask District Judge Joanna Kishner to revisit the case.
A Las Vegas police officer was arrested Tuesday on a recommended felony charge of lewdness with a minor under 14. Police said Garrett Vandereecken, 43, was being investigated by his own department’s Juvenile Sexual Abuse Detail.