Captain Harry Fagel (left) of the Las Vegas Metro Police Department spoke to the media Tuesday, November 20, 2018, outside Metro headquarters. Captain Fagel addressed holiday safety tips. Captain Patricia Spencer (right) was also present for the briefing. Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal
Henderson Police Department Chief Latesha Watson Talks Change
Family members of murder victims talk about their loss. Susan Nash, 52, was killed in a shooting along with her daughter and one of her three sons on Sunday night. Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal @bizutesfaye
Officers responding to the scene at Mandalay Bay comment on difficult communications on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Las Vegas Strip.
A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer cycles through radio channels searching for information as he awaits ambulance traffic just outside University Medical Center on the night of the Oct. 1 shooting on the Strip.
Body cam video from Oct. 1 shows a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department officer using his radio to summon medical aid for shooting victims near the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.
Dead Body Found in Home of New York Giants’ Janoris Jenkins ‘TMZ Sports’ broke the story and said the Major Crimes Unit is conducting an investigation. The deceased man’s body was reportedly discovered by a worker in the basement of Jenkins’ New Jersey home on Tuesday morning. The report also claims the NFL cornerback was out of state during the time of the body’s discovery. The identity of the victim and the cause of death are unclear.
Benjamin Sparks entered a not guilty plea Tuesday Sparks, a Las Vegas political advisor, is accused of domestic battery. Lawyer Gloria Allred is representing the victim. His ex-fiancee told the RJ that Sparks sexually enslaved and beat her. He is believed to be in Texas. Allred warned Sparks: “You can run but you can’t hide.” The woman provided copies of emails, text messages and a signed contract laying out her duties as a “slave in training” to Benjamin Sparks. A police report shows that Sparks evaded police after the domestic dispute at the woman’s home on March 29. According to the emails, documents and text messages obtained, Sparks and his ex-fiancée signed a 5-page contract saying she would be his “slave and property.” Under the contract, the woman was forced to kneel and look down when she entered his presence. She was also required to be nude at all times, have sexual relations with him whenever he wanted and wear a collar in private. Sparks most recently worked on Rep. Cresent Hardy’s campaign, and has since been fired.
Avicii’s Autopsies Did Not Reveal Anything Suspicious Sweden broadcaster SVT revealed on Monday that there were no signs of foul play in the death of the Grammy-nominated DJ. Avicii, born Tim Bergling, was found dead in Oman on Friday. He was 28 years old. On Friday, his publicist, Diana Baron, released a statement: Diana Baron No details about his cause of death were provided.
A man who allegedly tried to use a counterfeit bill at the Aria was hospitalized after he jumped off an overpass trying to escape police. About 2 a.m. Tuesday, security at the Aria flagged down police. When police tried to talk to him, the man fled and led police on a foot chase, according to Lt. David Gordon. The chase ended at the Harmon Avenue overpass above Interstate 15, when the man jumped off the side and landed in the rocky landscaping below. The man was taken to the hospital for evaluation.
Crime scene photos contained in the preliminary report on the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting in Las Vegas show the hotel room used by gunman Stephen Paddock at Mandalay Bay on the Strip.
Heavy doses of anxiety, security and elation greeted the imminent arrival of 2018 in Las Vegas. A crowd of 330,000 visitors was expected to fill the Strip and Fremont Street downtown, as a record contingent of law enforcement officers kept the peace. This year’s massive outdoor party unfolded in the shadow of the Oct. 1 mass shooting that left 58 people dead. Several people said they came to celebrate in spite of what happened three months ago Monday.
Since Dec. 22, 10 people have been killed in Las Vegas. All but one death was the result of gun violence.
Officers salute fallen Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Charleston Hartfield, 34, killed while off-duty during the Route 91 festival and Mandalay Bay shooting incident.
A gunman opened fire on an outdoor country music concert from a Mandalay Bay hotel room late Sunday, killing at least 58 people, injuring more than 500 and sending the Las Vegas Strip into chaos. The massacre is the deadliest mass shooting in United States history.
Mesquite Police Department Public Information Officer Quinn Everett speaks with the press a few blocks from the home of Stephen Paddock the man who went on a shooting spree from the Mandalay hotel. Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal @Vegas88s
Sheriff Joe Lombardo gives an update on the events that transpired on the Las Vegas Strip and an eyewitness.
Video of the incident involving Michael Bennett and Las Vegas police on the morning of August 27, 2017. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Sheriff Joe Lombardo told reporters that officers had reasonable suspicion to stop NFL player Michael Bennett in August after a shooting was reported on the Strip. “They did what they were trained to do,” Lombardo said at an afternoon news conference. (Rio Lacanlale/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
A University of Nevada, Reno officer makes a comment during a traffic stop Sunday about shooting a graduate student. The officer has been placed on administrative leave. The school’s director of police services, called the comments “inappropriate and offensive” in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. (University of Nevada, Reno)
Sgt. Landon Law of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department talks about a plan to reduce crime in a northeast valley neighborhood by restricting vehicle access at its entrances. (Blake Apgar/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
24 people face fraud charges in a Las Vegas car crash scheme. The crashes would happen in the east valley, most on Nellis Boulevard. The scheme typically involved two cars that would brake suddenly, causing a victim behind them to rear-end the second car. One defendant, Julio Caesar Gonzalez, allegedly drove in 17 of the staged crashes. Another defendant, Edgar Betancourt Preval, is a local dentist. At least one crash sent an elderly couple to a hospital; in another, an 11-year-old child was inside the targeted vehicle. As of Monday morning, 10 people had been arrested.
Nevada Preps week 4 recap Facebook Live coverage of Basic-Canyon Springs football game, where a fight broke out and police responded with pepper spray. Review-Journal reporter Ben Gotz and videographer Elaine Wilson reporting.
1. Officers identified a teenage suspect, De’Mario Lofton-Robinson, in the death of a CSN nursing student. Lofton-Robinson, 18, was arrested Thursday on multiple charges, including murder with a deadly weapon. Police say Gabriel George Valenzuela pulled into his driveway and checked his mail before getting into a confrontation with four men. He was shot at least 3 times in his driveway.
2. A federal judge cut a defendant’s testimony short in the middle of his Bunkerville standoff retrial. Before starting the trial, U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro barred the defense from referencing constitutional rights to assemble or bear arms and prosecutors objected to Eric Parker’s reference to a sniper being involved in the standoff. The court said Parker violated a court order in his testimony.
3. A naked man shot by police last Saturday had $30,000 with him. Court documents show that Jason Funke had donated to the Life Spring Christian Church before and police found the money with his clothing in the church doorway. Police say Funke appeared to be meditating outside the church when he approached police and then fled to retrieve a gun left on the ground.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions gave a speech to local law enforcement Wednesday morning on sanctuary cities and curbing violent crime.
Julie Ramos talks about what she saw when her husband was slain during a home invasion in a neighborhood in the east part of the valley on Monday, July 29, 2014.
A suspect tried to rob the Walmart in Charleston Commons on Nellis Boulevard in Las Vegas. The suspect ran to a dentist office in the same complex where he barricaded himself in the bathroom. He was taken into custody by police without incident.
