Local briefs for September 28, 1999

Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1999 | 11:35 a.m.

Suspect sought in attack on his wife

Metro Police have released the license plate number of a car believed to have been driven by a man wanted in connection with the stabbing of his wife Saturday.

Sgt. Jim Young, with the general assignment detail, said the number of the New Mexico plate is 232HRM. It is on a white, four-door, 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix.

Police are searching for Adrian R. Correa, a 31-year-old Hispanic male described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing about 180 pounds, having brown eyes, a mustache and long black hair below his shoulders.

Correa was last seen wearing a blue shirt and blue pants.

Correa's 31-year-old wife was stabbed numerous times shortly before 3 p.m. Saturday in a residence in the area of Smoke Ranch Road and Torrey Pines Drive.

The victim was taken to University Medical Center where she is listed in stable condition.

Anyone with information about this incident should call the domestic violence detail at 229-4451.

Clark deputy DA honored by groups

Ben Graham, chief deputy for the Clark County district attorney's office, has been named "Nevada Prosecutor of the Year," for his lobbying during the 1999 Legislature.

The award is given annually by the Nevada Prosecution Advisory Council and the Nevada District Attorneys Association, which held their meetings last week at Lake Tahoe.

Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa said Graham, who has been with the district attorney's office for 22 years, earned the award for his "unselfish efforts and hard work on behalf of prosecutors" in Nevada and for helping "to improve law enforcement's ability to most effectively work for Nevada's communities."

Man found dead in vacant apartment

A man who was found shot to death in a vacant apartment over the weekend has been identified as 26-year-old Steven Burks of Las Vegas.

Metro Police Sgt. Rocky Alby said a security guard discovered Burks' body at about 6:30 a.m. Saturday in an apartment at 901 W. McWilliams Ave.

Anyone with information about the incident should call homicide detectives at 229-3521.

Woman finds grenade in box of records

A Henderson woman got more than she bargained for when she bought a box of old records.

In the box with the music was a live grenade.

Henderson Fire Department Division Chief Robert Maroney said the department received a call at about 3:15 p.m. Monday from a woman in an apartment in the 2700 block of Carnation Street about a possible bomb.

Maroney said after firefighters arrived they called the Las Vegas Fire Department Bomb Squad, who removed the device and disposed of it.

Maroney said the grenade appeared to be from the Vietnam War era.

Life jacket saves man in water 10 hours

Park rangers are crediting a life jacket for saving a 39-year-old California man who spent 10 hours in the waters of Lake Mead after falling off his personal watercraft Monday.

A spokesman for the National Park Service said Elsworth Lucas was riding the craft in the area of Echo Bay early in the morning when he apparently hit something and was thrown into the water.

The craft reportedly was found 10 miles from the point of the accident.

Lucas was rescued Monday night by Park Ranger John Tesar when he heard Lucas calling for help.

Liveratti will head Aging Services Division

Mary Liveratti, who has worked for the state Division for Aging Services for 19 years, has been named administrator of the agency, succeeding Carla Sloan, who resigned.

Liveratti, who will earn $56,153 when she takes the top job Nov. 2, has been deputy administrator for the last nine years. She came to Nevada as a VISTA volunteer in the 1970s to work at the Economic Opportunity Board of Clark County.

Liveratti, 47, was involved with the senior nutrition program in Clark County before entering state employment.

Sloan, who has headed the agency for three years, has resigned to become state director for the American Association for Retired Persons.