Two men were arrested Thursday on murder and robbery charges in the death of a man found dead in an SUV last month inan apartment complex parking lot in the east Las Vegas Valley.
Rio Lacanlale
Rio Lacanlale, whose work for the Review-Journal ranges from crime reports to video storytelling, joined the newspaper in October 2016. Before that, the UNLV broadcast journalism graduate contributed to newsrooms in central Italy and Washington, D.C. Rio is also a passionate traveler who enjoys living out of a backpack for months at a time.
Las Vegas police have opened a homicide investigation into the death of a man in his 70s last week in an east valley mobile home park.
Jorge Eduardo Pantoja-Aldaz, 24, who was arrested after a trooper found five AK-47 rifles in his rental car, is being held at the Pima County Jail in Tucson, Arizona, on gun trafficking charges. Bail was set at $10,000.
Metropolitan Police Department investigators were notified of Caylee Cecilia Koster’s death at 3:45 a.m., after first responders were called to a residence on the 4400 block of Jimmy Durante Boulevard for reports of a child in physical distress.
A man who ran multimillion-dollar prize promotion scams was sentenced Monday in Las Vegas to about seven years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.
A man was arrested Friday on a murder charge in connection with the violent death of a man whose body was found in a west valley drainage tunnel on New Year’s Day.
Witnesses said Danielle McClendon, 34, of North Las Vegas was hit by a red SUV shortly after 9 a.m. Friday as she crossed West Gowan Road at Martin Luther King Boulevard against a traffic light.
The Clark County coroner’s office has released the identity of the pedestrian killed in a hit-and-run crash last week in Henderson.
A woman who police said appeared to be breaking into a vehicle in a strip club parking lot was hospitalized Monday morning with a minor injury.
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Rain should continue overnight Saturday into Sunday before drier conditions should return to the Las Vegas Valley, according to the National Weather Service.
The September death of a 1-year-old Las Vegas boy who had a history of being abused has been ruled a homicide by the Clark County coroner.
Police say the 34-year-old died at a local hospital after being hit shortly after 9 a.m. at the intersection of West Gowan Road and North Martin Luther King Boulevard.
The Clark County coroner’s office has identified one of the two men who died Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide in eastern Las Vegas. He was 54-year-old Adel Amado Alvares-Mesa.
Henry A. Rios, 26, was booked Thursday into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of murder with a deadly weapon in connection with the slaying in May 2017 of Adan Gavilanes.