A search warrant was executed Saturday at a home near East Washington Avenue and North Hollywood Boulevard, near Frenchman Mountain.
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Families and Clark County’s top prosecutor say ICE undermined justice in Las Vegas by deporting criminal defendants before they could appear in court.
North Las Vegas police responded to a call just before 9 a.m. on Friday.
Prosecutors said Vaughn Griffith recorded a video of the abuse, switching from the front-facing camera that captured his face to the rear camera showing sexual acts being done on the victim.
A jury on Friday convicted “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in a sexual assault trial in which he was accused of targeting fellow Native Americans.
Holding a knife, Tory Manvilla raced back and forth through Winnie Ellis’ living room in a panic Tuesday night.
“He was yelling and screaming, ‘He’s got a gun, he’s after me,’ ” Ellis recalled Wednesday at her southeast valley home, site of the first fatal officer-involved shooting of 2011 for the Metropolitan Police Department.
Bryan Yant, a narcotics detective on paid administrative leave since a June 11 drug raid led to the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Trevon Cole, has been reassigned to a desk job at the Metropolitan Police Department. A police official said an investigation concluded Yant violated several policies in connection with the shooting.
A man has died after being shot by two police officers Tuesday night. Las Vegas police Lt. Mark Reddon said the shooting occurred at 8:47 p.m. when police responded to a call about a suspect with a knife.
Child welfare workers have no record of the “pattern of neglect” that led Nye County sheriff’s detectives to arrest a Pahrump woman whose three children were killed in a Feb. 9 fire along with a family friend.
The attorney for a convicted rapist and murderer Norman “Keith” Flowers told Nevada Supreme Court justices on Tuesday his client deserves a new trial, in part because the jury heard that police and prosecutors believe he might be a serial killer.
A judge sentenced Iraq War veteran Joseph Patrick “Pat” Lamoureux on Tuesday to up to 10 years in prison for a shooting spree that left him and a Nye County sheriff’s deputy wounded. Judge Robert Lane said a public defender’s claim that the spree was sparked by Lamoureux’s bout with post-traumatic stress disorder “lacks credibility.”
Judge Gloria Navarro has ordered Cole Puffinburger brought to the courthouse Wednesday in case defense lawyers call him as a witness in the trial stemming from the boy’s 2008 kidnapping. Prosecutors have rested their case against Jose “Miguel” Lopez-Buelna and Luis Vega-Rubio, who are being tried on kidnapping and drug charges in connection with Cole’s disappearance.
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A jury on Friday convicted “Dances with Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse in a sexual assault trial in which he was accused of targeting fellow Native Americans.
Police are investigating the deaths of two people found inside a residence Wednesday morning in the southwest Las Vegas Valley.
Former Nevada prison warden Manuel Portillo is charged with attempted robbery and battery after allegedly biting a coworker’s ear at a Palace Station work event.
Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
