One Dead, Seven Injured as Cybertruck Explodes Outside Trump Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, NV —Today, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Trump International Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip, leading to one fatality and seven injuries. The event occurred around 8:40 a.m. local…
Las Vegas Man Charged with Theft of Firearms from St. George Firearms Dealer
SALT LAKE CITY – Brett Clinton Combs, 41, of Las Vegas, was charged by a federal grand jury in the District of Utah with theft of firearms from a federally licensed firearms…
Northern Nevada Man Sentenced For Assaulting A Passenger And Interfering With Flight Crew Onboard An Aircraft En Route To Las Vegas
RENO, Nev. – A Gardnerville, Nev., resident was sentenced Friday by Chief U.S. District Judge Miranda M. Du to five years of probation, six months of home confinement, and restitution in the…
California Man Sentenced To Prison For Fraudulently Obtaining Over 700 Credit Card Numbers To Purchase $500,000 In Las Vegas Event Tickets
LAS VEGAS – A California resident was sentenced yesterday by U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan to five years in prison followed by three years of supervised release for fraudulently obtaining over…
Las Vegas Man Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud Conspiracy
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty today to his role in a conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection to the illegal possession of unemployment benefit debit cards issued…
Las Vegas Tax Preparer Pleads Guilty To Identity Theft And Money Laundering Crimes
LAS VEGAS – A Nevada man pleaded guilty yesterday to aggravated identity theft, wire fraud and money laundering. On March 28, he pleaded guilty to a separate indictment charging him with filing…
Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Prison For Committing COVID Relief Fraud While On Pretrial Release
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas resident was sentenced today to one year and nine months in prison for filing fraudulent loan applications that sought over $100,000 in loans guaranteed by the…
Las Vegas Duo Indicted for Conspiracy to Transport Illegal Aliens and Placing Their Lives in Jeopardy
TUCSON, Ariz. – Last week, a federal grand jury in Tucson returned a two-count indictment against Kevin Michal Bell, 41, and Dara Eve Belic, 38, both of Las Vegas, charging Conspiracy to…
Las Vegas Woman Sentenced To Prison For Using Stolen Identities To Fraudulently Collect Over $175,000 In Unemployment Insurance Benefits
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas woman was sentenced today to 45 months in prison for using at least 40 stolen identities to fraudulently collect approximately $175,622 in unemployment insurance benefits from…
Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Prison For COVID-19 Relief Fraud, Bank Fraud, And Money Laundering
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to 27 months in prison for perpetrating a scheme to defraud the Small Business Administration by fraudulently applying for an Economic Injury…
Las Vegas Police Investigating Trailer Park Stabbing Murder
LAS VEGAS, NV – Police in Las Vegas responded to an RV park on Boulder Highway Friday night at around 5:30 pm to find one man, in his 50s, with a serious…
Las Vegas Man Charged For Unlawfully Manufacturing And Selling Privately Made Firearms, Including Machine Gun Conversion Devices, Without A Federal Firearms License
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday for allegedly possessing a machine gun, and for allegedly engaging in the manufacturing and selling of privately…
Las Vegas Man Indicted For Assaulting Federal Task Force Officers
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man made his initial appearance in federal court yesterday for allegedly assaulting two federal task force officers. Isaiah Tisby, 26, is charged with two counts of…
Las Vegas woman guilty of fraud and money laundering charges
CLARKSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA – Shelly Anne Leipham, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was found guilty by a federal jury today of fraud charges, United States Attorney William Ihlenfeld announced. After a three-day trial,…
Las Vegas Man Sentenced to 15 Years in Federal Prison for Meth Trafficking
United States Attorney Dennis R. Holmes announced that a Las Vegas, Nevada, man convicted of Conspiracy to Distribute a Controlled Substance – Methamphetamine was sentenced on March 18, 2022, by U.S. District…
Las Vegas Man Charged With Wire Fraud Related To Telemedicine Scheme
HARRISBURG – The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced today that Sergey Duman, age 45, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was charged in a criminal information with wire…
Las Vegas Man Sentenced To Over Seven Years In Prison For Armed Robberies Of Cell Phone Stores
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man was sentenced today to seven years and 10 months in prison for his role in two armed robberies of cell phone stores in the Las…
Las Vegas Police Officer Indicted For Three Casino Robberies
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officer made his initial appearance in federal court on Friday for allegedly robbing three casinos, stealing approximately $164,000 in total. Caleb Mitchell…
Marshals Task Force Captures Memphis First Degree Murder Suspect in Las Vegas
Memphis, TN – On March 25, 2022, Gregory Morton, 50, was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force at the behest of the U.S. Marshals Two Rivers Violent…
Three Men Plead Guilty To Setting Fire To Police Vehicle During May 2020 Protest In Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS — Three Las Vegas men pleaded guilty this week to conspiring to and setting fire to a Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) patrol vehicle during a protest in downtown…
Las Vegas Felon Charged For Robbing Multiple Businesses At Gunpoint
LAS VEGAS – A Las Vegas man made his initial appearance in federal court on Wednesday for allegedly robbing eight businesses at gunpoint. George Perez (38) was arrested on January 25, 2022.…