Las Vegas police search a local official's home after a journalist's stabbing death

[Jilly_in_VA]

Police in Las Vegas visited the home of a county official Wednesday as they continue to investigate the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, the newspaper said.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department only confirmed in a statement to NPR that it was executing search warrants related to the weekend homicide on the 7200 block of Bronze Circle.

But the Review-Journal reported that law enforcement officers and police vehicles were spotted outside the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles on Wednesday morning, and that a section around the home was taped off.

Journalists with the newspaper also observed a vehicle in Telles' driveway matching the description of the red GMC Yukon police say the suspect was driving. The vehicle was later towed.

German, who was found dead with stab wounds outside his home on Saturday, had recently written a series of stories about Telles' mismanagement of the public administrator's office, including allegations of a hostile workplace, bullying and favoritism. Employees also said that Telles had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

Telles denied the allegations and targeted German on social media. In one tweet, Telles called one of the stories about his office a "smear piece" and said he thought German was "mad that I haven't crawled into a hole and died."

https://www.npr.org/2022/09/07/1121617699/las-vegas-journalist-stabbed-investigation-jeff-german

This could get interesting

[Grumpy Old Guy]

1. Sadly, this reporter was an old family friend of mine from Milwaukee.

I am still in shock over his tragic death.

For the record, his last name rhymes with "airman," and the "G" is hard. It isn't pronounced like someone who comes from Germany. I cringe every time I hear it mispronounced on the air.

[SheltieLover]

2. Deepest condolences

[Grumpy Old Guy]

3. Thank you SheltieLover.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Reporter Jeff German confronted the power players of Sin City. It may have gotten him killed.

For 40 years, Las Vegas journalist Jeff German confronted the power players of Sin City, scrutinized public spending and never, ever backed down.

And he had more stories in the pipeline – including an ongoing investigation into an elected public official who police allege killed him.

“Jeff, in a million years, would never have thought that this would be the case that he’d be killed over," said Lisa Rasmussen, a local criminal defense lawyer who knew German for 20 years. "He’s covered the Mob, gotten into these massive corruption scandals. And no one offed him over that. It’s just so offensive on so many levels.”

On Sept. 3, authorities say, German, 69, was found stabbed to death outside his suburban Las Vegas home where he'd lived for 26 years, according to public records. Police initially said they thought German's killer was someone casing the neighborhood. But four days later, they arrested an elected official who had been the subject of German's recent reporting: Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/reporter-jeff-german-confronted-the-power-players-of-sin-city-it-may-have-gotten-him-killed/ar-AA11LqVm

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. Obviously it did

One of them has been arrested for it. He didn't even cover his tracks.