School police said in his arrest report that Nicolas Jefferson, an Improve Your Tomorrow volunteer, used a fake online persona to promise an 18-year-old student modeling opportunities and money in exchange for sexually explicit photos and acts.
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District Judge Jessica Peterson barred Review-Journal reporters from witnessing an alleged victim’s testimony during Nathan Chasing Horse’s sexual assault trial last week.
The former pro basketball star didn’t want to discuss his DUI arrest during an appearance at a Las Vegas restaurant. But he said he wants Vegas to get an NBA team.
Donors include attorneys and gaming industry entities. Some are also tied to well-known figures who have been convicted of crimes.
Henderson and a top city official are asking a judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by a real estate agent who alleged he was stripped of his volunteering duties at the HPD as retaliation for speaking out in support of the city’s fired police chief.
A Henderson Police Department sergeant who was struck by an SUV had to get 11 staples in his head to treat his injuries, police said.
The suit claims that in addition to “severe pain and shock”, the man also “sustained a traumatic brain injury, a concussion, aggravation of his post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic headaches.”
A former girlfriend of Matthew Livelsberger, the man behind a Tesla Cybertruck explosion at the Trump International on New Year’s Day, said his 2019 deployment to Afghanistan “absolutely broke him.”
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday for casting two ballots in the 2020 election: one in Las Vegas, and one in Kingman, Arizona.
A Las Vegas man was arrested Sunday in connection with a fraudulent sports betting scheme involving an NBA player who planned in advance to withdraw from games.
The Henderson Police Department arrested a man it said drove into a sergeant’s car in a Jeep with a stolen license plate, sending the officer to the hospital.
Matthew Livelsberger asked ChatGPT questions about explosive materials the day before he rented a Cybertruck in Denver and began his journey to Las Vegas.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating a homicide near East Converse Drive and North Hollywood Boulevard.
Officers received calls about a homicide on Jan. 3 after Adrian Rodriguez-Guillen cut off and shot at a vehicle containing his ex-wife and her girlfriend, police said.
The custody battle between Dylan Houston and his ex-wife’s parents resolved in December, less than nine months after the contentious family court case erupted in a violent shooting at a Summerlin law office.
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The complaint, filed Tuesday in federal court in Las Vegas, claims a high priest ordained within the church had raped the girl when she was 10 until she was 15.
The former “Dances with Wolves” actor is accused of sexually assaulting multiple women. Two of them spoke to jurors.
One person was killed Wednesday night after a Salvation Army bus stolen in North Las Vegas triggered a police pursuit, then ran a red light in the west valley and collided with a motorcycle, police said.
Nathan Chasing Horse is accused of targeting the Native American community and sexually assaulting multiple women.
