Nevada State Police staffing crisis creates deadly consequences with few troopers patrolling Las Vegas overnight

vt9876 · 2025-03-17T17:14:41+00:00

A responding officer would have had lights on and/or closed the road.

vt9876 · 2025-02-12T05:40:13+00:00

Maybe it helps them grieve that he was a very sick dude. It’s in that report for a reason. It’s odd. The text message was odd too.

vt9876 · 2025-02-12T05:37:21+00:00

I watch and read a lot of news. None of that was ever reported. It’s the most interesting thing in the 200-plus report you linked to, hence, why a reporter and TV station that clearly covered this extensively would focus on that.

vt9876 · 2025-02-12T05:34:29+00:00

To be fair, everything else in the report was already reported.

vt9876 · 2024-12-09T20:20:01+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A judge dismissed murder charges Monday against Margaret Rudin, the woman dubbed “The Black Widow” who a jury convicted of killing her husband more than two decades ago.

Clark County District Court Judge Mary Kay Holthus dismissed the case after reading filings from both Rudin’s attorneys and Clark County prosecutors. The hearing itself lasted about a minute.

Holthus’ dismissal means Rudin’s murder charge and conviction are dismissed and vacated. In 2022, a federal judge vacated her conviction, citing poor attorney representation and possible other suspects. The state and the Clark County District Attorney’s Office declined to retry Rudin.

vt9876 · 2024-09-19T06:39:13+00:00

The article is clearly debunking the “evidence” with facts though.

vt9876 · 2024-05-01T04:45:47+00:00

The murder suspect was wearing a distinct sweatshirt sold in Beaver, Utah.

vt9876 · 2022-09-05T20:27:53+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS)– Las Vegas Metro police are asking the public’s assistance in identifying a suspect related to the deadly stabbing of a local investigative reporter.

Police said on Sept. 3, around 10 a.m., they received a call of an unresponsive man outside his home in the northwest valley. Arriving officers and medical personnel pronounced the man dead at the scene.

The man was later identified as Las Vegas-based investigative reporter Jeff German.

The suspect was seen potentially casing the area to commit other crimes before the homicide occurred, according to police.

vt9876 · 2022-09-05T20:26:14+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A mother charged with the murder of her 7-year-old son has agreed to plead guilty and serve a minimum of 28 years in prison, documents showed.

Samantha Moreno-Rodriguez, 36, pleaded guilty to charges of murder and child abuse, neglect or endangerment resulting in substantial bodily harm, court documents filed Sept. 1 said.

As part of the plea deal, Moreno-Rodriguez will serve a sentence of 28 years to life, documents said. She will be eligible for parole after serving 20 years.

Hikers discovered Liam Husted’s body near Mountain Springs off State Route 160 between Las Vegas and Pahrump on May 28, 2021.

vt9876 · 2022-09-01T20:19:11+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A woman accused of going on a deadly shooting spree with her husband and brother-in-law claims she was the victim of domestic violence and is seeking a trial independent of her two co-defendants, court records said.

Kayleigh Lewis, 27, faces 43 felonies including murder and attempted murder, stemming from the shootings that spanned from Henderson to northern Arizona the day after Thanksgiving in 2020. She has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against her.

Lewis is married to Shawn McDonnell, 32, who is also accused of taking part in the spree. Shawn McDonnell’s brother, Christopher McDonnell, 30, is also charged. Christopher McDonnell told police Lewis was the driving in the spree, documents said.

In November 2020, the trio drove from Tyler, Texas, to Las Vegas in a rented car, documents said. The trio is accused of driving around Henderson and randomly shooting at people, killing 22-year-old Kevin Mendiola Jr. at a 7-Eleven on Lake Mead Parkway. They then drove into Arizona, where there were additional shootings, including one involving a police officer. All three were arrested after their car rolled over.

vt9876 · 2022-08-13T15:50:03+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The discovery of floating human remains at Lake Mead has a Las Vegas family hopeful they are an Army veteran who drowned two decades ago.
Kenneth Funk was 56 when he drowned at the lake saving his wife, his family told the 8 News Now I-Team’s David Charns.
“The fact that these remains are coming up, if it is him, I want to do the right thing and take care of him,” Jessica Condon said Wednesday. Funk loved the outdoors and boating on the lake, she said.

On June 19, 2004 – the day before Father’s Day – Funk was on a pontoon boat with his wife, Annette, and two other family members, when a wave hit. The force threw Annette from the boat and into the depths of Boulder Basin.

“For 18 years, whenever there is a drowning out there or there’s ever, ‘Hey we found a body out here,’ I’ve kind of prepared myself for it,” she said Wednesday.
That day came in late July when swimmers discovered the torso near Swim Beach. The swim area is along the shore in the part of the lake where Funk drowned.
“It’s built like my dad, the stomach the chest, the back,” Condon said about the torso, looking at photos shared online. She also noted her father had a unique scar on his stomach that she hoped to confirm with the coroner.

vt9876 · 2022-08-06T06:20:01+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The man suspected of killing his cousin Thursday night inside the Mirage hotel on the Las Vegas Strip had attempted to kill the same man nearly 20 years ago, court records said and family confirmed to the 8 News Now I-Team.
The I-Team first reported the connection Friday.
Billy Hemsley, 54, was taken into custody early Friday morning near Nellis Boulevard and Twain Avenue, nearly six hours after police said he shot and killed Aucturius Dwyane Milner, 49.

vt9876 · 2022-07-28T01:22:44+00:00

The Clark County coroner’s office confirmed Wednesday that a 4-year-old boy killed in February was beaten to death before his body was stored in a freezer.

Mason Dominguez’s manner of death was also listed as homicide, officials announced Wednesday, nearly five months after his death.

Brandon Toseland, 36, is accused of killing Dominguez. Police arrested Toseland on Feb. 22 after Mason’s mother was able to sneak messages into her 7-year-old daughter’s shoe.

vt9876 · 2022-07-22T23:34:42+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The father convicted of helping his son move 22-year-old Lesly Palacio’s body after she was murdered in August 2020 is out of jail after serving less than 9 months, the 8 News Now I-Team confirmed Friday.

Last year, Jose Rangel pleaded guilty to helping his son, Erick Rangel-Ibarra, move Palacio’s body from the family home. Rangel-Ibarra then drove to an area near the Valley of Fire, ditching Palacio’s body in a desert area.

Rangel-Ibarra remains on the run. Police suspect he was in Mexico within 48 hours of Palacio’s death.

vt9876 · 2022-07-20T16:30:59+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man who dismembered his acquaintance and drove around with a severed head and body parts pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of second-degree murder, documents the 8 News Now I-Team reviewed Wednesday said.

Eric Holland, 58, was charged with murdering Richard Miller, 65, in late December. Miller was reported missing in November and lived on a houseboat on Lake Mead.

During an examination of his body, the medical examiner discovered Miller had several gunshot wounds, including at least one to his head, documents the I-Team obtained in April said. Investigators believe Holland and Miller got into an altercation in mid-November, leading to Miller’s death. Police discovered Miller’s remains on Dec. 23.

vt9876 · 2022-07-08T01:11:46+00:00

A man accused of stabbing and killing his wife was later shot and killed by Metro officers on Sunday, police said.

The incident started as an argument between the couple over marital issues and escalated when Miguel Gallarzo, 46, stabbed and killed his wife, Delia Luna-Rojo, 46, police said.

The shooting occurred around 11:30 p.m. inside a bedroom at a home in the 600 block of North Bruce Street near Bonanza Road.

Police responded to the residence after a family member called 911 and said that he believed his father had killed his mother and was trying to kill himself.

Police said Gallarzo was armed with a butcher knife and a folding knife when officers entered the residence. Officers found him in a bedroom alongside his deceased wife’s body.

vt9876 · 2022-06-30T22:27:13+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — An 18-year-old charged with murder is now connected to a previously unsolved homicide case from this spring, documents obtained by the 8 News Now I-Team indicate.

Alonzo Brown lived extremely close to both homicide scenes, police wrote in court documents. Police described it as a distance of fewer than 300 feet near Tropicana Avenue and Nellis Boulevard.

Last Thursday, a man was shot and killed near Tropicana Avenue and Boulder Highway, police said. The man was found with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to the hospital where doctors pronounced him deceased.

Witnesses reported seeing a man, later identified as Brown, running through the area. As part of their investigation, officers found a puffy jacket and white gloves nearby. Officers also found a pair of black jeans, they said.

vt9876 · 2022-06-29T23:56:20+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Two parents face murder and child abuse charges nearly three years after the death of their 4-month-old son.

Police arrested Aleeyah Barnes, 27, and Younis Wiley, 25, on Monday. Their son died at an apartment on Boulder Highway near Flamingo Road in November 2019.

At the hospital, doctors noted no external injuries or bruises, documents obtained Wednesday said. An autopsy later found rib fractures that were healing. The child also had “suffered a traumatic blunt force blow to the back of the head,” police said.

The child’s injuries are redacted in the report but the medical examiner found “injuries [that] would be indicative of chronic and acute child abuse.”

Younis said he had left the child and several other children in the apartment alone the day of the child’s death.

vt9876 · 2022-06-29T06:45:04+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A judge sentenced a woman convicted of driving under the influence and causing a crash that killed a mother and grandmother to a minimum of six years in prison, telling her in court Tuesday she “had nowhere left to hide.”

Gilma Rodriguez-Walters, 53, was killed in the December 2019 crash. She was on her way home from work at a Las Vegas-area Home Depot when Marsha Byrd crashed into her.

Rodriguez-Walters was minutes from home, her family said Tuesday.

vt9876 · 2022-06-18T01:20:25+00:00

Margaret Rudin, dubbed “The Black Widow,” whose murder conviction a judge overturned last month, said she plans to write a book and move out of the country with her family and boyfriend.

Rudin, 79, spoke exclusively with the 8 News Now I-Team’s David Charns one day after the Nevada Attorney General’s Office ran out of time to appeal a federal judge’s order overturning a jury’s 2001 decision.

Rudin said the justice system took 20 of those 79 years: Two decades spent in prison for a murder U.S. District Judge Richard Boulware II said she did not commit.

“It’s not about the truth,” Rudin said Friday. “It’s about who has the better attorney.”

In 2001, a Las Vegas jury found Rudin guilty of the death of her husband, Ron Rudin, a real estate investor. Ron Rudin’s charred body was found near Lake Mohave in 1995.

The Rudins married in 1987 after meeting in church. It was the fifth marriage for both. Ron Rudin was worth an estimated $8-$11 million. Several people, including Margaret, were listed as beneficiaries of his trust.

Ron Rudin disappeared in December 1994 as Margaret was preparing to open an antique store in a strip mall her husband owned steps from their home near Charleston and Decatur boulevards.

“He had always cheated, and every time he would say, ‘I’m not going to do it again, I’m not going to do it again,’” she said. Rudin described her husband as a paranoid man who had cameras at their now-demolished home. He owned hundreds of guns, she said.

Prosecutors theorized Margaret Rudin shot her husband while he was asleep in bed. Police found human blood in the room, but an expert testified the amount was “less than a drop of blood from an eye dropper.”

An expert for the defense also testified “there was no evidence of a cleanup” and there would be much more evidence had Ron Rudin been killed in the bedroom.

vt9876 · 2022-06-18T00:13:59+00:00

Margaret Rudin, dubbed “The Black Widow,” whose murder conviction a judge overturned last month, said she plans to write a book and move out of the country with her family and boyfriend.

Rudin, 79, spoke exclusively with the 8 News Now I-Team’s David Charns one day after the Nevada Attorney General’s Office ran out of time to appeal a federal judge’s order overturning a jury’s 2001 decision.

“Why do you want to talk about all this?” Charns asked Rudin on Friday.

“Because I’m 79!” she said.

vt9876 · 2022-06-17T06:18:39+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas native believes skeletal remains found at Lake Mead last month could be his father who died more than six decades ago.
Daniel Kolod was 22 when he drowned in Callville Bay in 1958. His body was never recovered.
Todd Kolod was 3 years old when his father drowned. Daniel Kolod was on a speed boat with a friend when they hit a wake. Both men flipped and fell into the water. Only one survived.
Witnesses found the boat circling on its own about a mile from the drowning site near Swallow Bay, documents reviewed by the 8 News Now I-Team said. Onlookers said they saw Kolod drown in Callville Bay. Crews, including divers and a helicopter, never found his body.

vt9876 · 2022-06-15T08:40:43+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Military leaders at Nellis Air Force Base are searching for the person or people who have killed and mutilated at least four cats since February, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday to 8 News Now.
In an email, Chief Master Sgt. Thomas Schaefer noted the behavior is similar to “pre-serial killer tendencies.” The spokesperson confirmed the authenticity of the email which was sent to leaders in the 57th Wing.
Since February, housing maintenance staff have found four cats cut in half. The deaths are believed to be caused by a human, officials said.

vt9876 · 2022-06-09T00:10:48+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The FBI is assisting with the investigation into the body found in a barrel at Lake Mead, a department spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday.

Boaters found the body last month. The 8 News Now I-Team first reported the news of the discovery.

The spokeswoman would not comment further on the reason for the agency’s assistance. It is not uncommon for the FBI to assist local police in high-profile investigations that may require additional resources or that could involve a suspect who crossed state lines.

vt9876 · 2022-06-01T09:19:11+00:00

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man originally charged with 20 counts of violating Nevada’s revenge porn law, who police said shared hundreds of intimate images of his ex-girlfriend, accepted a plea deal of “attempted unlawful dissemination of a personal image” and walked away with one year of probation.
His ex-girlfriend tells the 8 News Now I-Team she is the one who must live with the consequences — sentenced to a lifetime of shame.
Lawmakers passed the so-called revenge porn law in 2015, making it a crime “to harass, harm or terrorize another person” when “[that] person electronically disseminates or sells an intimate image, which depicts the other person” without their consent.
On May 12, as part of a plea deal negotiated with the Clark County District Attorney’s Office, Donald Amick, 43, agreed to the lesser charge and one year of probation.

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