Capt. Robert Plummer of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department briefs the media on the recent shootings of four homeless men.
A man accused of smothering his infant in downtown Las Vegasyesterday isfacing a murder charge.
Democrat Steve Sisolak says that if elected Nevada governor he willdonate hissalary to nonprofits until the state’s public education system improves.
A virtual reality and escape room attraction called HeadzUp is coming to Boulevard Mall.
It’s expected to open this month.
And a team from ClarkHigh School has won the Nevada Science Bowl and will go to nationals in April.
Monday’s headlines: Las Vegas sports books buried by Eagles, Las Vegas court filing: Wynn wanted sex with waitress ‘to see how it feels’ to be with a grandmother. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Sunday’s headlines: Las Vegas police seek help solving killings of 3 homeless men, Man gunned down in drive-by shooting Friday in Las Vegas, Here are the biggest Super Bowl LII viewing parties in Las Vegas (Rochelle Richards/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Saturday’s headlines: Steve Wynn’s $7.5M settlement involved a paternity claim, report says, Prosecutors charge Arizona man who sold ammo to Las Vegas shooter, Ex-athletic director at Las Vegas school sentenced for sex crimes (Rochelle Richards/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
F.R.E.E. International, a human trafficking advocacy group, organized The Big Search where hundreds of volunteers hit the streets with fliers of missing children. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson, Jeff German and Rachel Crosby go over the new developments surrounding Douglas Haig and casino security measures.
A year after Nevada health officials closed a taxpayer-funded home where mentally ill people lived in filthy conditions, a mental health clinic continued placing people there — until reporting by the Las Vegas Review-Journal prompted state regulators to shut it down again this week. The home is owned by Emperatriz “Emper” Ebiya and for years was part of a state program that pays people to house mentally ill clients in their homes. But in December 2016 state officials discovered “deplorable conditions” at her home and shut it down. The squalid conditions at such homes are a widespread problem in Nevada, which has 142 community-based homes for people with mental illness. State officials declined to provide addresses for homes of mentally ill residents. The Review-Journal found and visited six of the homes in Las Vegas. A recent audit uncovered conditions — human feces, broken glass, expired food, filthy mattresses, mildew and rodents — at 37 homes statewide.
Federal prosecutors in Nevada have charged Arizona resident Douglas Haig with conspiracy to manufacture and sell armor-piercing ammunition. According to a statement from the U.S. attorney’s office in Las Vegas, Haig appeared Friday afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Michelle Burns in Phoenix and was released on bond pending a Feb. 15 status conference there. If convicted, Haig could face up to five years in prison. A criminal complaint filed Friday morning is sealed in Nevada, but it appears in Arizona court records. According to the document, the FBI has determined that “two unfired cartridges bearing Haig’s fingerprints” were found in gunman Stephen Paddock’s suite at Mandalay Bay. At a news conference Friday at his lawyer’s office, Haig said Paddock demonstrated no unusual behavior when he came to Haig’s home in Mesa to purchase approximately 720 rounds of tracer ammunition. “Business records reveal that Haig sold armor piercing ammunition throughout the U.S., including Nevada, Texas, Virginia, Wyoming, and South Carolina,” according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Cocktail waitresses at the The Mirage, then run by Steve Wynn, were pressured by supervisors to have sex with casino customers dating as far back as 1989 and during that time one server claimed the casino mogul pressured her into having sex, according to a court filing. The claims could have been made public nearly two decades ago, but the Las Vegas Review-Journal decided against publishing the story in 1998. Two of the cocktail servers spoke to RJ reporter Carri Geer. Geer said she remembers then-publisher Sherman Frederick saying the woman should undergo lie detector tests. But after the polygraph results came back, Geer said she was ordered to delete the story she had written. But she saved a printout of the story, the court records from the case, the polygraph results and the $600 bill for the polygraph examinations. “I always wanted to tell these women’s stories. That’s why I saved this file for 20 years.” – Carri Geer
Billionaire Steve Wynn faced allegations of pressuring a waitress into sex about 30 years ago. He allegedly told the woman he had “never had a grandmother before” and wanted “to see how it feels,” according to a court document and interviews with the Review-Journal. Wynn, the CEO of Wynn Resorts, was accused of sexual misconduct with several employees in a Wall Street Journal story published last week. Wynn has denied the allegations in the Journal report. The woman, who is now 75, said her supervisor told her she had to have sex with Wynn to keep her job at the Mirage, according to her account and a sworn statement by Earlene Wiggins. Wynn, 76, has not responded to multiple requests from the Review-Journal for an interview.
Douglas Haig, the man who was identified this week as a “person of interest” in the Las Vegas shooting investigation, said Friday that he does not believe the tracer ammunition he sold to gunman Stephen Paddock was used in the mass shooting. (Ross Leviton/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
North Las Vegas police are investigating a shooting Friday morning that left two people dead.
A 43-year-old woman and a man, whose age is unknown, were shot and killed around 5 a.m. at the Colonial Grand at Desert Vista apartments. Two children who lived with the woman were not at home at the time of the shooting and are both safe, police said. The shooter remained at-large Friday morning. Police said they would release a suspect description later in the day, if available.
Friday’s headlines: Employee shot after altercation outside east Las Vegas market, Las Vegas smoke shop clerk gets probation for fatally shooting boy, 1 dead, 1 injured in North Las Vegas shooting
Raad Sunna, the Las Vegas smoke shop clerk who shot and killed a 13-year-old Fabriccio Patti who had rushed into the store wearing a hoodie was ordered to community service and probation on Thursday.
A beautification project in Henderson is pitting neighbors against one another in a move that critics call a backhanded attempt to create a homeowners association. Robert Herr, the city’s public works director, parks and recreation department, said the project is meant to bring the community together to maintain the landscape in the perimeter of the Meridian Estates near Robindale Road and Pecos Road. The project will replace trees, plant new shrubbery and remove toxic material. It will add grading and install an irrigation system, accent boulders and rock mulch, Herr said. He said the city has “no intention of creating an HOA” in the 166-home neighborhood. The estimated total is $537 per home, and the payment would be divided over two years into semi-annual installments of $134.25. Long-term maintenance is estimated to be approximately $52 per year per home. An additional service fee related to the Neighborhood Improvement District will include a cost of about $36 the first year and $19.27 in subsequent years.
San Francisco Wipes Out Weed Convictions From 1975 The city will retroactively apply California’s new marijuana laws to prior convictions. Misdemeanors and felonies from 1975 will either be reduced or expunged. This means nearly 5,000 marijuana convictions will be reviewed and about 3,000 misdemeanors will be dismissed. The new measure is part of California’s Proposition 64 which legalizes possession and purchase of one ounce of marijuana.
Thursday’s headlines: 6 arrested in connection with Las Vegas crime spree, 2016 settlement case may help regulators in handling Wynn sexual misconduct case. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
A Las Vegas police sergeant has confirmed that Oct. 1 gunman Stephen Paddock was dead before any officers breached his Mandalay Bay suite. A document unsealed Tuesday seemed to contradict that, stating that “as SWAT officers breached room 135, they observed Stephen Paddock place a gun to his head and fire one round.” The sergeant who helped author the preliminary report said it became clear as the investigation unfolded that none of the officers saw the gunman shoot himself. Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo reaffirmed those details in a news conference the day the police report was released.
Wednesday’s headlines: Search warrant document names 2nd ‘person of interest’ in Las Vegas shooting, Police think racing to blame for deadly crash in east Las Vegas, Super blue blood moon
Douglas Haig, identified as a person of interest in documents related to the Las Vegas shooting, spoke to reporters Tuesday evening outside his home in Mesa, Arizona. (Madison Miller/Las Vegas Review-Journal Correspondent)
A judge unsealed nearly 300 pages of search warrant records, including one document that publicly identified an additional “person of interest” in the Oct. 1 massacre on the Las Vegas Strip. “Until the investigation can rule otherwise, Marilou Danley and Douglas Haig have become persons of interest who may have conspired with Stephen Paddock to commit Murder with a Deadly Weapon,” according to the Metropolitan Police Department document Danley was Paddock’s girlfriend and initially was named as a person of interest in the investigation. Authorities later said they do not expect her to face charges. Haig, whose name had not been previously released, spoke to reporters Tuesday evening outside his home in Mesa, Arizona, and confirmed that he has been contacted by investigators. “I’m the guy that sold ammunition to Stephen Paddock,” Haig said. He said he met with Paddock, the gunman behind the mass shooting, once but did not know him. He declined to answer additional questions.
Document shows police ID’d 2nd ‘person of interest’ in days after Las Vegas shooting. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
A man who allegedly tried to use a counterfeit bill at the Aria was hospitalized after he jumped off an overpass trying to escape police. About 2 a.m. Tuesday, security at the Aria flagged down police. When police tried to talk to him, the man fled and led police on a foot chase, according to Lt. David Gordon. The chase ended at the Harmon Avenue overpass above Interstate 15, when the man jumped off the side and landed in the rocky landscaping below. The man was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Tuesday’s headlines: man accused of using counterfeit bill jumps off overpass, middle school teacher arrested on child sex charges, parking rates to increase at nearly a dozen Strip properties. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Roughly 20,000 ice age fossils that were excavated from Las Vegas’ own Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument and surrounding areas in Nevada, but have been stored in California museums for the past 20 years, finally came home to the Las Vegas Natural History Museum.
Clark County firefighters responded Monday night to a vacant house fire at 3687 Lanai Ave. Neighbors said the people living there had moved out recently, but had been cleaning the house over the weekend. Neighbors watched as firefighters quickly doused flames coming from inside a car port. One grateful neighbor thanked firefighters with cookies. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
Two groups say they conducted their own survey of Clark County residents and found that the majority of them believe the district should enforce current bullying laws rather than create a new policy. (Amelia Pak-Harvey/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Junior Occhipinti is one of the victims of a flu season that has caused 16 deaths in Clark County so far, compared with five last year, according to Southern Nevada Health District data released Friday. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday the 2017-18 flu season is poised to be the worst since the 2009 H1N1 pandemic.
A public task force has been created and will be led by Caleb Cage, chief of the Nevada Division of Emergency Management, to improve the state’s oversight of casino emergency response plans.