Sting nabs suspect in paper caper

Friday, July 12, 1996 | 11:59 a.m.

CARSON CITY -- While many police departments are busy with murders, robberies and assaults, the Capitol Police Department has its own priorities.

John Nighorn, 47, was arrested Tuesday by a Capitol Police officer on charges of stealing a 35-cent newspaper from in front of the State Industrial Insurance System headquarters.

Employees have been complaining for months that the newspaper, which is delivered every morning outside the building, is gone when they arrive for work. So Officer Stu Miller set up a sting. He marked the newspaper with the number of his badge -- and then waited early Tuesday.

Police said Nighorn walked up to the building, picked up the newspaper, hid it under his windbreaker and started toward his nearby home. Miller then made the petty larceny arrest.

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