A Las Vegas police officer charged with robbing the Rio is now facing federal charges stemming from two more armed heists at the Red Rock and Aliante resorts.
Robberies
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service said it has received thousands of complaints about missing or stolen mail in Southern Nevada over the last year.
Las Vegas police say a serial robbery suspect dubbed the “Rainbow Revolver” robber has been arrested in nine holdups along Rainbow Boulevard in central Las Vegas over the last year.
A Las Vegas police officer is facing four felonies in an armed robbery Sunday at the Rio in which he is accused of stealing more than $78,000 in cash.
Clark County prosecutor Christopher Laurent said Caleb Rogers also is a suspect in two other armed robberies at valley resorts.
Caleb Rogers, 33, was arrested Sunday and booked on charges of burglary with a firearm, assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon.
The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is probing the robberies of two mail carriers in the Summerlin area in recent weeks.
Edward Parker, 42, said he was working at the Lodge at Hualapai, 3460 S. Hualapai Way, at 6:30 a.m. Dec. 4 when a stranger entered the bar and robbed him at gunpoint.
A serial robbery suspect arrested in Las Vegas this week is a six-time felon who police say was nabbed after he stole a bag of money containing an electronic tracking device.
George Solano Perez was arrested on eight counts of armed robbery and eight counts of armed burglary
“There is no question that these two defendants are a danger to the community,” Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Harmony Letizia said.
A Las Vegas woman is suspected by police of drugging a married man she met in a nightclub on the Strip, then stealing his $145,000 watch and credit card.
The shootings in parking garages at the Fashion Show mall and Palace Station, which took the lives of a 66-year-old woman and a man in his 50s, are believed to be related.
A man accused of shooting a waiter 11 times at a Chinatown restaurant was ordered held without bail early Tuesday by a justice of the peace.
O.J. Simpson, who went to prison for his role in a 2007 robbery and kidnapping case in Las Vegas, will no longer be under the state’s supervision.