Metro investigating officer-iinvolved shooting in southwest Las Vegas

Thursday, March 30th, 2017, 7:33am

Metro police said one of their own was involved in an overnight shooting on the valley's southwest side.

At 12:47 a.m., officers were dispatched to 9800 River Trade Street, near Mountains Edge Parkway and Buffalo Drive after receiving calls about a home burglary.

Investigators told 8 News NOW that a suspect armed with a long gun broke into a home in the neighborhood and then moved from house to house in the area.

According to Metro's news release, an officer found the suspect hiding in a backyard and said the suspect pointed his gun at him. The officer fired one round, missing him, and the suspect ran off.

Another person in the area saw what happened and was able to subdue the suspect after hitting him with a baseball bat.

The police arrested the suspect and he was sent to UMC and with non life threatening injuries.

This is the 3rd officer involved-shooting in metro's jurisdiction... Read More

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Wednesday, March 29th, 2017, 10:26am

Police say a 16-year-old boy was arrested for threatening to shoot his high school on social media.

Police arrested the boy Tuesday on charges of making terroristic threats. Clark County School District Police Capt. Ken Young says he does not believe the student meant to follow through with his threat of start a shooting at Durango High School.

The teen is currently being held at the Clark County Juvenile Detention Center.

The teen sent the threat via Twitter on Monday. Some parents say they decide not to send their kids to school and others say the school district did not notify them about the tweet.

CCSD says they typically send out parent notifications in cases where it sees a credible threat... Read More

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Friday, March 10th, 2017, 4:50pm

Metro Police arrested four people accused of robbing taxicab drivers in the south and northwestern parts of the valley.

According to Metro, on March 8, at approximately 2:40 p.m., patrol officers were called to the 9500 block of West Maule Avenue to investigate a report of a robbery to a taxicab driver. The victim told officers after he picked up several passengers near South Las Vegas Boulevard, he was instructed to drive to an apartment complex in the area of South Fort Apache Road and West Sunset Road.

Metro said when the taxicab driver dropped the suspects off at the complex located in the 9500 block of West Maule Avenue, they showed a gun and demanded the victim's money and property... Read More

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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017, 4:44pm

Police took a man with a machete into custody after a brief struggle Wednesday afternoon. The man had been barricaded in a home with a juvenile.

According to officers, the incident started as a domestic violence call in the 7000 block of Clearwater Avenue near W. Flamingo Road and S. Rainbow Boulevard.

Both directions of Flamingo were shut down between Rainbow & Tenaya during the incident, according to Metro Police.

Officers were called to investigate a situation in which a man was armed with a large knife.

Diskin Elementary School was also placed on a lockdown due to police activity in the area... Read More

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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, 3:56pm

Las Vegas Metro Police are hoping video of a suspect attempting to steal an older woman's purse will lead to his identity being revealed.

According to police, The attempted robbery happened on Jan. 18 around 1:30 p.m. in the 4900 block of Blue Diamond Road as a woman was leaving a business.

The suspect followed the woman to the business and then waited for her outside. When she left the business, he followed her to her car and then grabbed her purse, knocking her to the ground. The woman suffered abrasions to her head and was taken to St. Rose San Martin Hospital for treatment.

Another man in the parking lot chases off the suspect causing him to drop the purse.

The suspect did leave the area in a waiting vehicle.

He is described as a young black man, around 5-foot-10-inches tall, weighing 150 pounds, with a tapered afro-style haircut. He was last seen wearing blue jeans and a dark hooded sweatshirt... Read More

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Wednesday, March 1st, 2017, 3:55pm

Metro Police have arrested a man in connection with the death of a security guard in April 2016 at a construction site.

Raymond Padilla, 43, is charged with murder with the use of a deadly weapon, robbery with the use of a deadly weapon, burglary, conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and conspiracy to commit burglary.

The victim, 48-year-old Mark Steven Santee, was killed on April 27 at a southwest apartment complex near Fort Apache Road and Tropicana Avenue that was under construction. He was shot several times... Read More

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Wednesday, February 15th, 2017, 8:36pm

Scammers are preying on the kind hearts of Nevada residents, and they're using the Nevada Highway Patrol to do it.

NHP said it had received several complaints from citizens who said they were being solicited for donations on behalf of various police charitable organizations.

NHP said the scam artists use a local phone number to conduct the con, and according to some callers, they were solicited from someone posing as a representative of the American Association of State Troopers, along with the Officer Down Charities for the Nevada Highway Patrol and the Nevada Highway Patrol itself.

When a person refuses to donate, NHP said witnesses told them the scammer would threaten unfair treatment from Troopers in the future.

"We want the community to be aware of this fraudulent activity and be sure to protect their personal information," NHP said... Read More

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