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 searching for a woman who robbed the South Point casino cage at gunpoint Monday night. The woman walked up to the cage about 7:40 p.m., showed the teller a handgun and demanded cash, according to the Metropolitan Police Department. No one was injured in the robbery. She got away with an “indeterminate” amount of money, police said, and fled the casino in an older model 2-door gold or brown sedan with a black top and large chrome rims. Anyone with information on the robbery can contact Metro’s robbery section at 702-828-3591, or Crime Stoppers at 702-385-5555 to remain anonymous.
More than 20 years after Nadia Iverson’s body was found at a construction site with a gunshot wound to the head, a former Las Vegas police officer has been charged with raping and killing her. Records show Reno police arrested Sewall on Jan. 11. Metro said he was being moved to Clark County Detention Center. Sewall faces one count of murder with a deadly weapon and two counts of sexual assault with a deadly weapon. A criminal complaint shows prosecutors accused Sewall of raping and killing 20-year-old Iverson around May 8, 1997. Construction workers found her body in an apartment they were renovating at 1226 Reed Place, near Washington Avenue and Martin Luther King Boulevard.
Las Vegas police are investigating a Tuesday morning injury crash involving a man in his 20s and a Toyota sedan. The crash was reported at 4:45 a.m. at the intersection of Desert Inn Road and Valley View Boulevard.
Northbound Valley View is blocked. The man was taken to the hospital. The driver of the Toyota is not suspected of impairment.
Review-Journal reporters Elaine Wilson and Wade Millward discuss the latest update surrounding the Route 91 Festival location and the SWAT building that it could potentially host.
Fifty-eight people killed. More than 500 injured. And yet, nearly a month after the Las Vegas Strip experienced the worst mass shooting in modern American history, local and federal authorities are refusing to fill in the blanks. In the days after Oct. 1, when Stephen Paddock opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest festival crowd from his Mandalay Bay corner suite, Las Vegas police were hosting multiple news conferences a day. They released a comprehensive timeline, which ended up being wrong. They took it back, and tried to clarify the errors, but instead caused more confusion. At least twice this week, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has asked to speak with Sheriff Joe Lombardo about the shooting investigation. Both times, reporters were told by Carla Alston, the Police Department’s director of communications, that the sheriff “will not be conducting interviews.”
Las Vegas police are investigating after a man with a gunshot wound was found dead in the backseat of a vehicle outside a southwest valley gas station. Police were called about 6:20 a.m. Thursday after a woman went into a Terrible’s gas station at 4150 S. Durango Drive asking for help. The man, who appeared to be in his 20s and had suffered at least one gunshot wound to the chest, was in the backseat of her car, police said. Investigators pronounced him dead just before 6:30 a.m. The woman may have been intoxicated, McGrath said. She only provided the man’s street name.
A Las Vegas police officer killed Sunday night in the mass shooting on the Strip has been identified by those who knew him as Charleston Hartfield Hartfield posted an image of the Route 91 country music festival on his Facebook page Sunday evening, hours before a gunman shot into the concert crowd Troy Rhett, Hartfield’s friend, said he sent Hartfield a text message late Sunday night, “hoping he would text me back.” “I figured he was probably busy helping others,” Rhett said. “I don’t know a better man than Charles.”
Assistant Sheriff Todd Fasulo of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department briefs the media on the UMC officer involved shooting that occurred Sep. 25th. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Undersheriff Kevin McMahill for the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department held a press conference that discussed Seattle Seahawks’ defensive end Michael Bennett’s detainment that occurred on Aug. 27. (Gabriella Benavidez/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department spent $9.6 million on a twin-engine Airbus H145. (Patrick Connolly and Blake Apgar/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A wild police chase involving a stolen U-Haul truck, with shots fired, through downtown Las Vegas ended at Craig Road and Clayton Street with two suspects being taken into custody and a police officer in the process.
A Las Vegas police officer was wounded and another person is dead after a shooting near the intersection of Sahara Avenue and Lindell Road. The officer was being treated at University Medical Center for wounds that are not considered life-threatening.
In a ceremony that lasted under 10 minutes, Joseph M. Lombardo was sworn in Monday as the seventh sheriff of Clark County since the 1973 creation of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Undersheriff Jim Dixon briefed the press with a detailed report on two recent officer involved shootings that occurred on August 3rd and 11th, 2014.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police investigated an officer involved shooting at Calico Fields Street and Balcony Trellis Avenue in the far northwest Las Vegas valley.
At a press conference Metro Robbery/Homicide Captain Csaba Maczala released information on the capture of three individuals involved in a series of robberies in the Las Vegas valley. Surveillance footage shows three individuals who are under investigation.
Local rapper Orlando Clemons, known as “Splashgod”, is interviewed at his recording studio in Las Vegas about his March arrest as he walked on Fremont Street with friends after performing a show. Clemons claims that physical force used by a Las Vegas police officer against him was unjustified and that the video is proof. The video which surfaced following the incident went viral on social media before Clemons and his friends were able to file any formal complaint against the officer.
The couple that killed two Las Vegas police officers earlier this month planned to ambush more police, Sheriff Doug Gillespie said Monday.
Friends, family and fellow officers packed into the Canyon Ridge Christian Church to pay tribute to Las Vegas police officer Igor Soldo, one of two Las Vegas police officers ambushed and killed Sunday while having lunch.
Las Vegas police had spoken with future cop killers Jerad and Amanda Miller three times since they moved to Las Vegas in January, but never found any evidence that they hated police or were planning an attack.
Metro police on Wednesday released surveillance video from Wal-Mart that shows the two suspects in Sunday’s ambush and shooting deaths of two Las Vegas police officers and another man. One of the suspects, Amanda Miller, in the foreground, is pointing a weapon at the other suspect, Jared Miller. A video clip from the surveillance video can be seen below this news story.
Kelley Fielder, 42, resident at the Oak Tree apartment complex in Las Vegas speaks to the news media about her friends and neighbors Jerad and Amanda Miller Monday, June 9, 2014.
Rondha Gibson and William Scott, family members of two men killed by Las Vegas police, announced their endorsement of Ted Moody for sheriff at The Leatherneck’s Club, a Marine Corps bar located 4360 W. Spring Mountain Road.
It’s looking good for Metro after the U.S. Department of Justice released its final progress report Wednesday after a wide-ranging, multi-year study of Metro’s policies related to deadly force.