Police say someone posing as a Sam’s Town employee convinced a cashier’s cage supervisor to drive a box holding $750,000 in cash to the suspect last year.
Robberies
Police are seeking the public’s help in finding a man in connection with an armed robbery of a fast-food restaurant last month in the west Las Vegas Valley.
A Las Vegas couple was arrested after the wife allegedly “jumped over the counter of the casino cage” at a Southern Nevada casino and made off with more than $652,000.
The two suspects robbed a victim at gunpoint early on July 4th on West Lake Mead Boulevard, according to a Metropolitan Police Department news release.
Las Vegas police say the man entered the business, brandished a weapon and demanded cash from an employee.
Four suspects have been charged for stealing a bag containing about $250,000 worth of diamonds from a jewelry vendor as he grabbed a drink at a Palazzo bar May 31.
About an hour after the initial call, police said they were investigating a theft by several individuals, not a shooting.
Police say a man used an iPad to rob two bank branches on consecutive days last month in the south central Las Vegas Valley.
A 33-year-old man suspected in a series of Arts District burglaries was taken into custody, according to a news release.
A reward of up to $150,000 has been offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.
A Las Vegas man indicted in a scheme to steal $7 million in U.S. Treasury checks in Utah was arrested over the weekend in Lyon County, Nevada, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
Lennix Dockery was taken into custody early Saturday by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Department in Rathdrum, Idaho. He is one of three suspects arrested in connection with an April 9 fatal shooting.
Some schools were in a soft lockdown after a vehicle taken by gunpoint in Las Vegas was found in a Henderson neighborhood.
Henderson officers responded to a home in the 1000 block of Robbers Roost Avenue after a report of a home invasion.
The two women and one man robbed a business about 4:30 p.m. March 30 near the 3000 block of East Tropicana Avenue.