An 81-year-old Las Vegas man has been arrested for stabbing his adult son to death, telling the neighbor who called 911 the man “fell on a knife and was bleeding.” The incident took place on December 22 and involved a convoluted set of circumstances as related by suspect Juan Garcia-Hernandez and his son’s “girlfriend,” KLAS …
The driver of the Cybertruck that exploded outside a Las Vegas hotel Wednesday morning was a US citizen and Army veteran who served at the same Army base as the US-born citizen who attacked revelers in New Orleans hours earlier. Sources identified the Las Vegas driver as 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger of Colorado Springs, although he …
One person is dead and seven more injured after a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Las Vegas Trump International Hotel Wednesday morning. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Kevin McMahill said the truck was rented in Colorado through the app Turo and driven to Las Vegas, arriving at about 7:30 a.m. It drove up and down …
A 12-year-old Las Vegas girl was arrested Friday night for the stabbing death of her father. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, North Las Vegas police were called to the scene at about 9:30 p.m. by a family member. KSNV said the 911 caller turned out to be the juvenile suspect. Police arrived at …
Las Vegas police spearheaded a sting operation targeting child sex predators in early December, ultimately arresting eight men. The men all face charges of luring a minor with a computer to engage in sex, with one of them getting an additional charge of attempted use of a minor to produce pornography, KLAS reports. Seven of …
An Indiana man waited until after he’d won election to his local county commission to plead guilty in a sexual assault case against him in Nevada. John D. Jessup, 49, is now awaiting sentencing after his guilty plea to an attempted rape. He faces up to 20 years in prison, WXIN reported. Jessup was elected …
Las Vegas police have arrested a woman and charged her with killing her roommate and leaving her body in a freezer. Police said they were called by a person from the mobile home community management office on November 6 who said she was concerned because she hadn’t been able to reach one of the residents …
Two children were killed Friday afternoon when the driver of a stolen Lexus sped through a red light and slammed into a Mitsubishi Outlander carrying four children as passengers. The impact sent the Mitsubishi nto a Honda Civic and a Cadillac SRX that were stopped at a light, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported. The …
A Nevada teenager accused of intentionally mowing down a retired police chief on a bicycle last year has been ruled incompetent to stand trial. Judge Christy Craig on Wednesday sent Jesus Ayala, now 19, to Lake’s Crossing Center, a maximum security psychiatric hospital in Sparks, according to KTNV. Ayala was 17 when he and Jzamir …
Las Vegas police are looking for clues to the death of a woman found stuffed into a suitcase early Thursday morning. The Clark County coronor’s office identified the woman as Kristen Avelar, 46, the Las Vegas Review-Journal said. Police said they responded to a call just before 4:30 a.m. Thursday near an apartment complex near …
A Las Vegas man was arrested Tuesday for an incident earlier this month in which he shot at a car carrying his girlfriend’s mother and brother 25 times. Darius Higuera, 24, has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and 27 counts of discharging a gun at or into an occupied vehicle or structure, …
A Las Vegas man was indicted Thursday on charges that he killed the mother of his children last September, a murder court documents say those children witnessed. But 39-year-old Elmer Manzanarez, who was initially arrested on charges of domestic battery and child abuse, was released on a $100,000 bond, reportedly with an ankle monitor, KLAS …
