A police stakeout that turned into a barricade situation in the southwest Las Vegas Valley has ended with one person taken into custody.
Mike Shoro
Mike Shoro joined the business desk in May 2020 after working as a digital reporter and social producer. He previously reported on crime and breaking news for the Review-Journal. A University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate, and a Chicago suburbs native. Prior to joining the R-J, he worked at several news organizations in Nebraska. Father to an unruly rabbit.
After several hours of negotiating with a man on Monday night, Las Vegas police were able to convince him to put down a weapon and come down off a roof in the central valley.
Las Vegas homicide detectives are investigating a death Monday night in the central valley.
Three people are wanted in a robbery from this weekend near West Lake Mead Boulevard and North Torrey Pines Drive, and Las Vegas police are asking for help identifying them.
A 50-year-old woman stands accused of murder in her mother’s death. Her 73-year-old mother was unable to care for herself, and she refused to seek medical care, an arrest report alleges.
The 76-year-old woman killed Thursday night while crossing an east valley street has been identified.
A 63-year-old man serving time for DUI was found dead inside of his cell Monday morning at a Nevada prison.
A 26-year-old man repeatedly threatened a Las Vegas business owner and his family, often referring to them by Jewish slurs, according to an arrest report. Now, he faces a hate crime charge.
A man working to construct a new patio on a south valley residence was killed when the patio collapsed onto him for unknown reasons, Las Vegas police said.
The man who Nye County Sheriff’s Office deputies think was crushed to death by his Jeep during the July 4 earthquake died an accidental death.
A 47-year-old Henderson man who died after a crash Wednesday afternoon in the west Las Vegas Valley has been identified.
Troy Ray, who is believed to possibly be the first fatality in one of two back-to-back earthquakes, loved working on cars at his rural Pahrump Valley property, his sister said Wednesday.
The Nye County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday night they think a man died in Pahrump as a result of the July 4 earthquake that rocked the Mojave Desert.
Count the Hoover Dam among the many Southern Nevada structures that were inspected and determined to be free of damage after the recent earthquakes in Southern California, according to the Bureau of Reclamation.
The son of Nevada’s attorney general is accused of slapping his girlfriend’s face, according to documents released Tuesday.