A Pahrump man testified Thursday that an acquaintance, one of three people charged with torturing and fatally shooting a Las Vegas man, asked for help following the killing in August.
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A food service employee at Ely State Prison was arrested Tuesday after officials accused her of attempting to smuggle methamphetamine into the facility.
The courtroom was packed on Thursday when three people charged in connection with the killing of 27-year-old Roy Jaggers made their first court appearance.
“How can you do that to another human being?” the man’s father, Jerry Jaggers, said in a recent interview with the Review-Journal.
Officers responded to reports of a fight at the Aquarius Casino Resort involving “a large fight between multiple suspects” early Friday, Las Vegas police said.
On Sunday, police released a “digitally enhanced picture” of the boy. Police said due to the location of the body, the boy may have lived in Las Vegas, Pahrump, Baker, Calif., or other nearby cities.
The body of a young boy was found off the highway between Las Vegas and Pahrump on Friday morning. Police are asking anyone with information to contact detectives.
A 62-year-old man on death row for the 1985 torture-killing of his 4-year-old stepdaughter died in a Clark County prison on Monday.
The Justice Department has reached a settlement with Nevada after finding that the state’s prison system has discriminated against inmates with HIV and other disabilities.
Jordan Barson had more than nine times the amount of the drug in his system to be legally considered impaired, according to an arrest warrant.
The driver of a box truck that plowed into a group of nearly 20 bicyclists on Thursday, killing five, has been charged with DUI, court records show.
During a court hearing Tuesday, Nevada Southern Detention Center officials said there are 38 inmates at the federal facility in Pahrump who have tested positive for the coronavirus.
ICE detainees were a majority of those checked in a recent round of testing at the low-security wing of the jail, leading to more confirmed cases among them, official says.
The suspect faces robbery and murder charges after the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said he and a friend conspired to rob a teenager who fatally shot the friend in self-defense.
The number of Nevada prisoners with positive test results went from nine on Wednesday to 15 on Thursday, but the infection rate in the state’s prisons remains low.