The Nevada DMV will continue its scandal-plagued computer modernization program despite the state Supreme Court striking down a key funding source.
Arthur Kane
Reporter: Investigations
Email: akane@reviewjournal.com
Phone: (702) 383-0286
Twitter: @ArthurMKane
Art has been a reporter, editor, producer and executive producer at top metro newspapers and a top 20-market television station. His work sparked indictments, audits and changes to state law. He has been honored with two DuPont-Columbia awards, a Peabody and been a finalist for the Investigative Reporters and Editors honor.
A Review-Journal investigation found Henderson officers with years of misconduct kept their jobs. Confidential police records revealed why.
Records show two arrests, and a series of sexual harassment allegations – including sending nude pictures – but officer Darius Brown is still on duty at the Henderson jail.
The former Henderson officer earned the nickname “Creepy Cop” and was the subject of 60 internal affairs investigations stemming from a dozen incidents, files show.
Sgt. Michael Gillis had more than 30 internal affairs allegations tied to a dozen personal and professional incidents.
Henderson officer Brett Seekatz was promoted despite dozens of complaints over 18 years, some stemming from a 2010 video of him kicking driver Adam Greene in the face.
U.S. lawmakers have pushed to make police internal affairs records public, but the Nevada Legislature is considering a bill that would close off key investigative documents.
Subscriber exclusive: Records show years of sustained citizen complaints, allegations of sexual misconduct or criminal arrests, yet officers kept their jobs. Some were promoted.
Former Regent Bret Whipple agreed to a plea during a State Bar of Nevada hearing, putting him on probation for 18 months.
The Citizen Review Board either dismissed complaints or sided with Las Vegas Metropolitan Police internal affairs in most cases the past three years, records show.
Lawyers working to recover money for victims of disgraced attorney Robert Graham want more than half of the funds the trustee has on hand.
The Review-Journal fought for years and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to obtain child autopsy records as part of a child protection services investigation.
Brian Bradford said he asked the coroner’s office to autopsy his 7-year-old daughter after she died unexpectedly at a local hospital in 2019, but officials refused.
After four years, a trustee looking for assets from imprisoned attorney Robert Graham has identified nearly $1 million in assets. Only contractors have received money.
A fatal fire in downtown Las Vegas and the global pandemic dominated the news and the Review-Journal’s investigative efforts in 2020.
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