A Pahrump man was arrested on 5,000 counts of child pornography Thursday, according to the Nye County sheriff’s office.
Courts
James Henderson Haines, a Las Vegas man who robbed three banks and five other businesses at gunpoint in two weeks last November, was sentenced Thursday to nearly two decades in federal prison.
Las Vegas police last week arrested the husband of state Sen. Elizabeth Halseth on a charge of open and gross lewdness in connection with a dispute between the couple in their home.
A man arrested Monday for attempted murder unsuccessfully tried to escape custody through the right rear window of a patrol vehicle en route to the Clark County Detention Center, according to Las Vegas police.
Lawyers for construction defects lawyer Nancy Quon and her ex-cop boyfriend, William Ronald Webb, filed court papers Wednesday seeking to dismiss an indictment charging the couple in a suspicious October 2010 fire at Quon’s home.
Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. was found not guilty Wednesday of two counts of misdemeanor harassment stemming from an obscenity-laced confrontation with security guards over parking tickets.
A Clark County middle school teacher was arrested on drug charges Tuesday.