Las Vegas Metro Police Assistant Sheriff, Brett Zimmerman addresses the officer involved shooting on January 24,2019, where suspect Isai Rodriguez was fatally shot, either by officers, or self inflicted. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On Saturday, January 12, 2019 the Nevada Highway Patrol assisted the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department in the investigation of a fatal crash involving an off duty LVMPD Employee. After further investigation and review of civilian dash camera footage the Nevada Highway Patrol Fatal Team has placed fault on both the LVMPD employee and the deceased motorcycle rider.
On December 31, 2018 detectives with the LVMPD Northwest Area Command Patrol Investigations Section received a report of the theft of a surveillance camera from the front porch of a residence located in the area of West Lake Mead Boulevard and North Rampart Boulevard. The victim in this case became aware of other residents in the neighborhood who had been the victim of similar crimes.
Woman is killed after being run over at nail salon. Detectives from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Homicide Section are investigating the death of a nail salon employee. Lt. Ray Spencer of the LVMPD Homicide Section gives a brief synopsis of the case. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Las Vegas Metropolitan briefs the media on the recent arrests made regarding the 18th street gang.
Las Vegas Metropolitan briefs the media on the recent arrests made regarding the 18th street gang.
Officer Involved Shooting Press Conference 10-15-2018
The mother of Tashii Brown, who died after an encounter with Las Vegas police on the Strip, not satisfied after public review of evidence. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
On October 1, 2017, Las Vegas police officer Casey Clarkson working overtime at the Route 91 festival when a gunman opened fire. Clarkson was shot in the neck.
Newly released body camera footage from the Route 91 Harvest festival shooting contains additional examples of the many radio troubles Las Vegas police experienced during the massive emergency response.
The LVMPD Commercial Robbery Section is attempting to identify the pictured suspect who is responsible for committing robberies to businesses in the southern part of the Las Vegas Valley during the month of May 2018. The suspect enters the business, threatens the employee with a firearm and demands money from the register. The employee complies and the suspect flees the business.
The initial police response to emergency calls at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival. This video has no audio.
During the month of February, two victims have been identified by LVMPD Financial
Crimes detectives as being victims of a lottery ticket scam. These victims
were approached by a suspect who claimed to have a winning lottery ticket and needed
legal assistance to cash it.
LVMPD patrol officers were dispatched to a lounge located in the 900 block of East Karen Avenue for a report of multiple shots being fired into the business from the parking lot. Officers located a victim inside of the business suffering from a non-life threatening gunshot wound to the leg. As the suspect walked by the lounge on foot, he pulled out a firearm and shot into the business without warning. There were multiple people inside the business during the incident but no one saw the suspect.
Las Vegas police are looking for a heavy-set black man in his 30s with a beard who is a suspect in a woman’s beating death. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Las Vegas police are looking for a heavy-set black man in his 30s with a beard who is a suspect in a woman’s beating death. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Las Vegas police and animal control captured a bull Wednesday morning after it roamed through central Las Vegas for several hours.
Officers identified a second suspect in a deadly shooting and abduction Wednesday in the west valley, police said. Jessica Tolentino-Arciga, 26, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on Wednesday in connection with the incident, according to police. Officers previously accused Joseph L. Fernandez Jr., 27, of breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s home just before 4 a.m. He is suspected of abducting his ex-girlfriend, Mandy Hernandez, in a gray BMW sedan and shooting her friend.
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson and Rachel Crosby go over the latest stories on the October 1st mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
Local civil rights advocates are questioning the Metropolitan Police Department’s body-worn camera protocol. After examining body-worn camera policies outlined in Metro documents, local NAACP chapter Vice President Alex Cherup and longtime civil rights advocate Gary Peck say the body-worn camera policy needs revisiting. Peck said he doesn’t doubt Metro’s intentions to try to do what’s best for the community and law enforcement. “We just question what they’ve come up with,” said Peck. “The LVMPD body-worn camera policy is one of the most progressive policies in the nation,” the department wrote. “With that being said, we continue to evaluate best practices and how we can balance the need to be transparent to our public while also recognizing individual privacy issues.”
WARNING: The following video contains graphic footage.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department held a briefing about an officer-involved shooting which contained graphic footage from a body camera that captured the incident. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Every year, LVMPD honors those who died at the hands of domestic violence. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Thursday’s headlines: man receives settlement after country club snack lands him in hospital, two business closure at Palms, LVMPD responds to Michael Bennett’s accusations. Elaine Wilson/Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo briefs the media on the thirteenth officer involved shooting of 2017.
The mother of Tashii Brown, who died in Las Vegas police custody in May, spoke in public about her son’s case for the first time this week. Trinita Farmer spoke at a Thursday night screening of the documentary film, “What Happened in Vegas,” during the FreedomFest conference at the Paris Las Vegas. The film takes a critical look at the Metropolitan Police Department’s most controversial officer-involved deaths in recent years. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
More details were revealed alongside the body camera footage of the deadly shootout between a man and two SWAT officers on June 25. The Metropolitan Police Department named Cody Thompson, 33, and Theodore Carrasco, 36, as the officers who shot the suspect, George Marcus Tillman.
Three years ago Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo were there on break eating their lunch, when Jerad and Amanda Miller walked into the restaurant and opened fire.