A house arrest escapee has been charged with the stabbing of a security officer on Las Vegas Boulevard, then repeatedly punching a police K-9 dog as he was arrested, according to police records.
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Officers were called to Sahara Avenue and South Maryland Parkway after reports of a multi-vehicle collision, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Brian Boxler said.
The Metropolitan Police Department’s traffic bureau announced the arrest on Twitter, but did not provide any details.
More than 100 people were stopped and six people were arrested early this week when Las Vegas and North Las Vegas police targeted street racers.
Graciela Gomez died at a party on the 200 block of Beesley Drive when someone fired multiple gunshots into the house, striking her in the abdomen.
The shooting, which left the renter in critical condition, is at least the second in Las Vegas in the last four months involving unpaid rent.
The Las Vegas police SWAT unit took an armed man into custody in northwest Las Vegas Monday morning after a domestic dispute at an apartment complex.
An ex-doctor who lost his license due to a drug investigation has been accused in Las Vegas of making terrorism threats against the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
A man suffered a skull fracture after he was beaten with a dog bone inside a pet store during a quarrel over masks, police said.
A pedestrian was killed and a motorist was jailed on suspicion of DUI following an early Saturday crash east of the Strip.
The death of a man shortly after his arrest in July by Las Vegas police was caused by a methamphetamine overdose, the Clark County coroner’s office has ruled.
The shooting was reported about 12:40 a.m. Wednesday on the 6800 block of East Russell Road, near Boulder Highway, police said.
Kenny and Olga Girchenko face felony counts of providing medical treatments without a license for allegedly operating the “Coco Labios” business out of apartments.
Christopher Berrios, 55, is accused of killing 46-year-old Bernard Robledo at the Las Vegas home they shared and dumping his body in a recycling bin in September.
The suspect faces 10 counts of first-degree arson in what authorities say was the deliberate torching of a tract of under-construction homes in the southwest valley.