A retired Metropolitan Police Department detective charged with murder poses a threat to the family of the man she killed, prosecutors argued Tuesday as a judge again denied her bail.
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David Ferrara covers courts and legal affairs. He joined the newspaper in 2014 after more than six years reporting in the Deep South, where he wrote extensively about the BP oil spill. Prior to that, he worked for newspapers, magazines and a wire service in Chicago. He is a graduate of Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Prosecutors agreed to release a former Las Vegas attorney from probation on Monday after he spent nearly two weeks behind bars.
Attorneys for a retired Metropolitan Police Department detective charged with fatally shooting her former son-in-law asked for a judge to set her bail at $50,000, according to court papers filed late Friday.
The second of two teens was sentenced Friday for his role in a series of racist threats made against black Arbor View High School students on Instagram.
An assistant federal public defender has been appointed to fill a vacant U.S. Magistrate seat in Las Vegas.
A retired Las Vegas police detective facing a murder charge appeared before a judge Thursday, when her lawyers said they plan to ask for a bail hearing.
Attorneys for a retired Las Vegas police detective facing a murder charge said Wednesday that she was acting in self-defense when she shot and killed her former son-in-law.
The Nevada Supreme Court chastised retired District Judge Douglas Smith in a recent decision that reversed a man’s murder conviction and death sentence.
A former Las Vegas detective arrested on a murder charge Monday in what prosecutors called the “execution” killing of her former son-in-law was ordered held without bail Tuesday.
A 15-year-old boy pleaded guilty Monday to a felony charge of making a terroristic threat for his role in a series of racist threats made against black Arbor View High School students.
Two former executives of a Las Vegas investmant company have been extradited from Japan in connection with a $1.5 billion Las Vegas Ponzi that prosecutors called one of the largest financial crimes in the country’s history.
A man charged in connection with slaying of a California doctor made his first appearance in a Las Vegas courtroom Friday morning.
A former doctor and his business partner were sentenced this week to 33 months each in federal prison for their roles in a multimillion-dollar Medicare fraud scheme in Las Vegas.
A former Las Vegas attorney, disbarred for his role in defrauding the court system, is being held without bail after he was charged with DUI this week.
The mother of a 31-year-old man killed by Las Vegas police in a hospital emergency room has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Metropolitan Police Department.
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