The heightened security detail includes covert operations such as an increase in plainclothes officers inside and outside of the festival grounds, strike teams and snipers, according to Deputy Chief Andy Walsh.
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No one was injured in a crash involving a school bus Wednesday morning near downtown Las Vegas, police said.
One suspected drunken driver on Friday night did all the work for the Nevada Highway Patrol when he was found asleep at the wheel at the agency’s command center.
That includes 29 narcotics-related felony arrests, three misdemeanor arrests and one alcohol-related DUI arrest made between 6 p.m. Friday and 6 a.m. Saturday, according from the Metropolitan Police Department. Last year on the Friday of EDC, Metro made 29 narcotics-related felony arrests and four misdemeanor arrests, including two arrests for battery on a police officer.
Mild weather will continue to bless festivalgoers in the Las Vegas Valley this weekend for the Electronic Daisy Carnival.
Las Vegas police initially believed that Gustavo Carcamo was fatally shot during a targeted attack, but they now suspect he died while robbing a passerby with his girlfriend.
The bicycle and truck were northbound on Sammy Davis Jr. when the truck hit the bike, causing it to flip over, police said. A witness told police a shuttle bus drove over the bicyclist.
The newest addition to the Metropolitan Police Department’s helicopter fleet was used in the Saturday night Gold Butte rescue, and Federal Aviation Administration records show that it is the only one of its kind in Nevada.
A man was gunned down early Monday in the driveway of what police are calling a drug flophouse, triggering the second homicide investigation at that east Las Vegas residence in less than two months.