Las Vegas news briefs for June 16, 1999

Wednesday, June 16, 1999 | 11:17 a.m.

Couple pleads not guilty

A Las Vegas couple have pleaded not guilty to four felony charges resulting from the death of a 42-year-old man who apparently was trying to prevent a break-in and robbery at his home.

District Judge Sally Loehrer on Tuesday set an Aug. 16 trial date for Dale Moore, 30, and Sharon Elizabeth Fletcher, 42.

Moore was arrested shortly after the May 5 beating and strangulation of David Wayne Allen in his 920 W. Bonanza Road apartment. A VCR and some cash were taken, according to authorities.

Fletcher was arrested May 17 in the 500 block of Martin Luther King Boulevard.

The defendants face burglary, conspiracy, robbery and murder charges. They face the possibility of life in prison if they are convicted.

Prison inmate slips out of hospital

A state prisoner being treated at University Medical Center escaped Tuesday by slipping the handcuffs from the bed to which he was restrained while his guard was in the bathroom, the Nevada Department of Prisons said today.

Enoma Igbinovia, 27, remains at large today following his 10 p.m. escape from the facility where he had been treated for an ailment since last Friday, prison officials aid.

Igbinovia is described as black, 6 feet 1, 185 pounds. He was last seen wearing a T-shirt, blue jeans socks and no shoes.

Igbinovia had been an inmate of the Southern Desert Correctional Center at Indian Springs since Jan. 31, 1997. He was serving up to 10 years for attempted firearm possession by an ex-felon. He also was serving time for robbery, conspiracy, battery and use of a weapon.

Brown to host series of meetings

Las Vegas City Councilman Larry Brown will hold a series of neighborhood roundtable meetings throughout Ward 4 to discuss city programs and issues.

The next meeting is tonight in the theater at Cimarron Memorial High School, 2301 N. Tenaya Way.

Other meetings will be held June 24 and June 30 in the multi-purpose room of Lied Middle School, 5330 W. Tropical Parkway.

All meetings begin at 6 p.m.

Man killed while crossing street

Authorities today were attempting to identify a man who was struck and killed Tuesday by a car as he ran across Flamingo Road while carrying a large plastic bag full of aluminum cans.

Metro Police said the man was running southbound near Cambridge Street when an eastbound Ford driven by Ricky Williams, 27, of Las Vegas, struck him. Police said the man paused at the median then darted into the path of the vehicle.

The man was transported to the University Medical Center, where he died. Neither Williams nor his four passengers suffered injuries. Witnesses said Williams had the green light.

The accident remains under investigation.

Nellis personnel to help with roads

Sixteen Nellis Air Force Base airmen left today for Albania to begin work on repairing roads into wartorn Kosovo.

The group from the 820th Red Horse Squadron is part of a contingent of more than 200 Nellis-based engineers who were ordered to the Balkan peninsula by the Defense Department in the wake of the pullout of the Serbian forces.

Pilots survive crashes of F-15s

Two Air Force fighter planes crashed about 60 miles east of Tonopah while on a routine mission Tuesday night, Nellis Air Force Base officials said.

Both pilots survived the 5:45 p.m. crash and were treated at Mike O'Callaghan Federal Hospital, officials said. Their names and conditions were not released.

Both pilots were flying F-15C/Ds and both were members of the 53rd Wing, base officials said.

Other air crashes involving Nellis personnel over the last 45 years have resulted in high fatalities. The most recent was a collision between two Nellis HH-60G Pavehawk helicopters last Sept. 4, 25 miles north of Indian Springs, which killed 12 Nellis airmen.

A collision of two military planes on Feb. 25, 1944, during a night training exercise near the Las Vegas Army Air Field -- today Nellis AFB -- killed 11. On April 21, 1958, a Nellis fighter jet collided with a DC-17 over Arden, killing 49 -- the worst airline disaster in Las Vegas history.