A pungent, skunklike odor wafted through the air of a quiet neighborhood in the west Las Vegas Valley on Friday, heralding the presence of about 2,000 marijuana plants. It was the second major haul of the week seized by authorities.
Metro Police discovered a vast marijuana grow house Friday afternoon in the western Las Vegas Valley. It is the second major pot bust in the area in a week. Officers found an estimated 500 to 1,000 plants.
The dark, ominous looking clouds hanging around the Las Vegas Valley may look impressive, but the National Weather Service said they won’t produce much snow.
Laurice Brightman was shot in the buttocks during a Tuesday evening robbery at his apartment, but he was able to fight off one of the three armed assailants, escape and call for help. His friends, Anthony Anderson and Evin Russell, did not.
Constable's officer mistakes object thrown at door for gunshot, calls in reinforcements
Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013
It sounded like a gunshot, Metro Police and a Las Vegas Township Constable's officer thought. But when the ensuing barricade situation ended two hours later, after a SWAT unit entered the home, authorities found out there was no gunfire at all.
Hairstylists busily hovered around her, fastening large swaths of hair with plastic ties. The woman smiled, and occasionally, a nervous frown crossed her face as spectators gathered to watch her lose the better part of 3 1/2 feet of black hair.
The 22-foot-long monster of a pink 1959 Cadillac swings into the parking lot of the T-Bird Lounge and Restaurant in the dim, early hours of a Wednesday morning. This classic beauty of a car is too long for a parking space, so it glides to a stop at the curb.
A day after 18-year-old Jesse Hill died from injuries suffered in a car-pedestrian accident in North Las Vegas, law enforcement representatives from throughout the valley urged drivers and pedestrians to act with greater care.
A pedestrian was transported to University Medical Center after being hit by a sedan around 11 a.m. Thursday, according to Metro Police. The accident occurred at South Wynn and West Spring Mountain roads in the central valley, Metro Officer Laura Meltzer said.
A man who died after being struck by a car New Year’s Day has been identified as Jesse Hill, 18, of North Las Vegas, the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
An 11-year-old Las Vegas girl killed in a New Year’s Day sledding accident died of massive heart injuries caused by blunt force trauma, the Clark County Coroner’s Office reported.
An 18-year-old man died Wednesday from injuries he suffered after he and another teenager were struck by a car while walking on the sidewalk on New Year’s Day in North Las Vegas.
A Texas fugitive being pursued by federal, state and local law officers Wednesday morning in Las Vegas shot and killed himself, authorities said today.
The identities of three people killed in two separate traffic crashes in Henderson on New Year’s Eve have been released by the Clark County Coroner’s Office.
The 11-year-old girl who died after a New Year’s Day sledding accident on Mount Charleston has been identified as Vanesa Lara of Las Vegas. The Clark County Coroner’s office released the girl’s identity Wednesday morning but had not determined her cause of death.
Just before midnight, when hundreds of thousands of people on the Strip look toward the sky for the $500,000 fireworks show, Felix Grucci Jr. will be nervously awaiting the climax of what has been a year of preparation. “I’m 61 years old. I’ve been doing this all my life,” he said. “I still get nervous. When you push that button, is it going to work? Will everything work?” Any number of factors – high winds, rain or technical difficulties with the charges – can put a crimp in the fireworks display.
As late as Christmas Day – two days before the body of 10-year-old Jade Morris was found in North Las Vegas – the woman last seen with the girl refused to answer Metro Police detectives’ questions about the girl.
Metro Police are looking for a man who stole a cash register from a business earlier this month. At about 10 p.m. on Dec. 18, the man went into the store in the 6100 block of Vegas Drive, bought a beer and left, police said.
Troopers wounded a man in an exchange of gunfire this morning after a high-speed chase that ended on U.S. 95 when police blew out the fleeing vehicle’s tires, the Nevada Highway Patrol said.
A grim discovery Thursday in the northern stretches of the Las Vegas Valley has authorities trying to determine whether the case of a missing 10-year-old is now a homicide.
Volunteers, including at least one family member, are mounting a search for a 10-year-old Las Vegas girl missing since Friday. The Red Rock Search and Rescue/Recovery group has “activated” for a new mission: finding Jade Morris.
An infant from Las Vegas died of blunt force trauma last week in California, police in California City said, but details surrounding the circumstances were not immediately available.
A Bellagio employee accused of slicing a coworker’s face with razor blades last week said she would have killed her if a patron hadn’t taken her to the ground, according to a Metro Police report.
Snow flurries were reported across the Las Vegas Valley this morning, the National Weather Service said. The west side of the valley saw the most flurries, though the snow did not stick to the ground.
Traffic on the Las Vegas Strip labored along at a slow pace Tuesday, Dec. 25, with the sounds of the holiday interrupted by some honking and naughty words from impatient drivers.
A teenage former student was arrested today on the campus of the Northwest Career and Technical Academy after authorities found an unloaded rifle in his car. School District police said a parent alerted authorities to the gun, which was visible in the back seat.
Some smiled, some were shocked, some cried when the news was told to them. Most people were speechless. On Thursday, 2,000 people in need were told that they could afford Christmas, thanks to donated Visa cards worth $500.
Clark County has selected 28 recruits from thousands of applicants wanting to become a firefighter. Most days, the training is all about how to fight fires and save lives. This day, the lesson is about how to save their own hides.
For more than two years Gabriel Barajas fought in Iraq, participating in critical missions like the capture of Saddam Hussein. Barajas had come through the dangers of armed conflict to see his family again, but in a cruel twist of fate, was struck and killed by a car in 2004 when he stopped on a California highway to change a flat tire.
With many residents leaving town to spend Christmas and New Years elsewhere, and the possibility of new purchases inside, unoccupied homes can be enticing targets for criminals.
Suspects in three Monday robberies and a firefight with police have been identified, Metro Police said. The man who fired at police was identified as 23-year-old Angel Montoya. The other suspect was 20-year-old Mayre Rosales.
Three robberies and an officer-involved shooting Monday morning ended with one man in custody and a list of unanswered questions, Metro Police said. No one was injured when the man shot at an officer, who returned fire, police said.
Metro Police are searching for two suspects in the armed robbery of a Las Vegas business on Friday. The robbery happened just before 7 p.m. at a business near Charleston and Nellis boulevards, police said.
Religious groups in the Las Vegas Valley will continue to conduct services in the aftermath of the mass shootings last week at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
A man who fatally shot a woman at the concierge desk at the Exacalibur on Friday and then killed himself has been identified as Edward Brandt, 31, of Lake Forest, Ill., the Clark County Coroner’s Office said.
A man was killed in a fall Saturday after his parachute folded because of a change in wind pressure. He was identified as 51-year-old Richard Frazer, said Mike Murphy of the Clark County coroner’s office.
Most people in their lives have been in a car accident in some form. From Jan. 1 through Dec. 4, there have been 22,060 traffic accidents — about 65 per day — reported in the jurisdiction patrolled by Metro Police. Despite the high number of accidents, police and insurance providers continue to see errors in how people act in the aftermath of being involved in a wreck.