A Democratic former state lawmaker in Nevada has been sentenced to three years of probation for misusing campaign funds and lying about his residency when he ran for office in 2018 and 2020.
State lawmakers nationwide are responding to the deadliest overdose crisis in U.S. history by pushing harsher penalties for possessing fentanyl and other powerful lab-made opioids that are connected to about 70,000 deaths a year.
The Winnemucca Police Department booked Jacob Charging,19 and Jesse Lenoir, 22, both of Carlin and Ramiro Garcia, 21, into the Humboldt County jail on charges of robbery with the use of a deadly weapon.
A collaborative effort between the Placer County Sheriff’s Office and the Sparks Police Department resulted in the recovery of around $400,000 of stolen property.
Two boys were shot Tuesday night, one fatally, while at home with their parents in Las Vegas, after a stray bullet pierced through a wall separating the family’s apartment from a neighboring unit, police said.
Truckee police conducted the sting operation in the Glenshire area of Truckee with the FBI, the regional Human Exploitation And Trafficking team and the Placer County Sheriff’s Office.
The arrest began with a routine traffic stop on West Winnemucca Boulevard. Police said Johnathan Wall initially gave police false identification information.
A district judge in Elko sentenced 26-year-old Alexus Espitia on Wednesday to four to six years in prison, but suspended all but nine months of that sentence
Clark County District Court Judge Michelle Leavitt told murder suspect Robert Telles this week she doesn’t think it is ever a good idea to represent yourself in court, let alone a first-degree murder case.
A Washoe District Court jury in December convicted Isaiah Alexander Norwood of second-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon and of firing a gun in a populated area.
Nathan Chasing Horse, 46, now faces charges in four jurisdictions, with the newest case brought by prosecutors on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana.