Maurice Carroll, the former process server convicted in a false affidavit scheme, landed in jail again this week following a domestic battery conviction.
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Brandon Hill wondered aloud Wednesday why he was spending his 23rd birthday in jail accused of killing Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside a brew pub March 30. Speaking over a video link at the Clark County Detention Center, Hill, who has been in and out of jail the past few years, said he’s not the shooter.
Harel Zahavi told jurors he never intended to defraud four Las Vegas casinos out of $384,000 in gambling markers. But his testimony didn’t stop a jury Wednesday from convicting him of four felony counts. He faces one to four years in prison and a maximum $5,000 fine on each count at an Oct. 27 sentencing.
Police said Tuesday that Brandon J. Hill, 22, had been charged with murder in the March 30 slaying of Michael Alano Portaro, 22, outside the Tenaya Creek Brewery. They said a cigarette tossed aside by the suspect just before the shooting contained Hill’s DNA.
Newly released grand jury transcripts have deepened the mystery of whether Las Vegas lawyer Nancy Quon tried to kill herself to escape the pressure of a federal investigation into fraud and corruption at homeowners associations.
A jury Friday found a Los Angeles Police Department officer not guilty on all counts stemming from a sexual assault allegation during a Las Vegas vacation last year.
Mitchell Crooks was arrested March 20 for battery on a police officer. The charges have been dropped, and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has opened an internal investigation into the Las Vegas police officer who arrested him.
A second suspect in a Las Vegas cab driver’s slaying in March has been arrested in Florida, Las Vegas police said Friday.
The man who died in a shootout with Las Vegas police officers Tuesday served more than 13 years in Nevada prisons for a second-degree murder charge in the 1990s.
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The deal — which aims to preserve access to the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area — will allow Gypsum Resources to go forward with its housing development.
