
David Charns
Investigative Reporter at KLAS-TV (Las Vegas, NV)
I like asking questions | Investigative reporter at @8NewsNow in Las Vegas | @MedillSchool @COMatBU alum | [email protected] | Signal/WhatsApp: +14155470390
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8newsnow.com | David Charns
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A suspended Las Vegas Metro police sergeant has agreed to serve at least four years in prison — and as many as 10 — as part of a plea deal involving arrests on the Las Vegas Strip and the possession of child pornography, documents said. Metro police arrested Sgt. Kevin Menon, 43, in August.
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8newsnow.com | David Charns
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A gunman shot an innocent bystander as both drove on a Las Vegas freeway during a chase in a stolen car, documents said. Two young men, King Johnson-Jackson, and Jonathan Santoyo, 18, face charges, including attempted murder, connected to the incidents from May 3, documents said. That day, a person saw what she believed to be a family member’s stolen car in a northwest valley parking lot.
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1 week ago |
yahoo.com | David Charns
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A gunman shot an innocent bystander as both drove on a Las Vegas freeway during a chase in a stolen car, documents said. Two young men, King Johnson-Jackson, and Jonathan Santoyo, 18, face charges, including attempted murder, connected to the incidents from May 3, documents said. That day, a person saw what she believed to be a family member’s stolen car in a northwest valley parking lot.
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8newsnow.com | David Charns
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The man Metro police suspect planned a mass shooting at a Las Vegas gym warned a patron to leave before killing an employee, according to 911 calls the 8 News Now Investigators obtained Wednesday. On Friday, May 16, Daniel Ortega, 34, killed Edgar Quinonez, 31, during the shooting inside the Las Vegas Athletic Club on Rainbow Boulevard near Vegas Drive. Metro police shot and killed Ortega as he ran out of the front of the business. Three other people were injured in the shooting.
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yahoo.com | David Charns
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Clark County coroner’s office ruled a sex worker’s cause and manner of death as undetermined, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. Jason Kendall, 36, allegedly confessed to choking Larissa Garcia, 30, inside the Palms Casino Resort on June 12, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported. Garcia was a single mother, a daughter, a granddaughter and friend to many, friends said after her death.
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Pahrump judge and former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore was awaiting a commission's decision Friday on whether or not she could return to her courtroom after receiving a presidential pardon. https://t.co/iuiUeTyTFx

Three teenagers are accused of kidnapping a Las Vegas man at gunpoint, driving him to a remote desert area in Arizona, and stealing $4 million in cryptocurrency and other digital assets, the @8NewsNow Investigators have learned. https://t.co/NOVeC2h5Om

Four women who worked under disgraced public administrator Robert Telles, who are suing the county claiming a hostile work environment, are calling a $100,000 settlement offer “disrespectful.” https://t.co/tzyXayCNuk