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Las Vegas police homicide detectives are investigating the death of a 14-month-old girl. Relatives identified the girl Sunday night as Dyon Johnson.
Joseph Perez had already confessed. He and another man went to burglarize a woman’s home, he told detectives. And when the 68-year-old came home early, they killed her.
A 2013 trial date has been set for a legally dead Mississippi man facing federal charges in the kidnapping of a 12-year-old Las Vegas girl whose body was found last year in Louisiana.
Las Vegas police confirmed Thursday that Wednesday’s cocaine bust, touted as the largest cocaine haul in Nevada history, was trumped by a much bigger cocaine bust in 1993.
Two people were arrested this week in connection with calling in bomb threats to Las Vegas hotels and casinos and also trying to extort money, Las Vegas police said Thursday.
The owner of the failed Nevada Commerce Bank filed for Chapter 7 liquidation Thursday.
Nine months ago, a federal grand jury accused North Las Vegas resident Glenn Moss of trying to kill his wife by pushing her off a cliff and into the waters of Lake Mohave.
The 17-year-old youth charged with spray-painting graffiti over prehistoric artwork at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area received his punishment behind closed doors in federal court this week.