Bryan Vargas-Caicedo previously pleaded guilty in District Court to reckless driving and, in a lower court, to misdemeanor DUI in connection with the death of 37-year-old Wesley Larsen.
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Tyler Johns, 22, is charged with murder in the Nov. 14 death of Brandon Dominguez-Chavarria.
Christian Moniz Rabino was sentenced to no more than five years’ probation after he pleaded to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Kai Tesoro.
Edgar Flores, D-Las Vegas, was arrested on suspicion of DUI after he was found asleep at a traffic light on North Lamb and East Lake Mead boulevards at 4 a.m. on Sept. 12, according to police.
Between that case and another filed early December, 46-year-old Christopher Cohen now faces a total of 13 charges.
Police said T’Shawn Allen, 27, stole hundreds of dollars from businesses such as Pink Box Donuts, Buffalo Wild Wings, and Pretty Soul Kitchen and caused potentially thousands in damages over a two-day theft spree.
The constable, Mark Ruesch, shot Victor Vondrasek after Vondrasek attacked maintenance worker Orlando Sosa with a large knife, police have said.
On the ninth anniversary of Detective Chad Parque’s death, the North Las Vegas Police Department and city council named the station where he began his ten-year-long career after him.
Victor Vondrasek, 46, was arrested Tuesday and booked on suspicion of attempted murder, resisting a public officer, and other charges, according to jail records.
Pedro Jimenez, 59, of Ontario, California, was arrested and charged with one count of leaving the scene of a crash after a Dec. 18 hit-and-run.
Franqulin Flores, 41, was charged with one count of murder after Las Vegas police did a welfare check on 75-year-old Renya Flores De Hernandez and found the woman dead in her bed.
Here’s the Metropolitan Police Department’s plan to reduce traffic-related fatalities and keep officer-involved shootings at an all-time low
Sarah Davi and her husband, the Rev. Nick Davi, were shot by their neighbor in December 2023.
An estimated 345,000 visitors celebrated on the Strip as a Pacific storm soaked “America’s Party” on New Year’s Eve.
At Centennial Hills Hospital, a baby was born 19 seconds into the new year, and Summerlin Hospital’s first baby arrived at 12:13 a.m.