News briefs

Tuesday, Feb. 29, 2000 | 10:26 a.m.

Man, woman sought in robbery

Henderson Police are looking for two suspects in connection with a Monday morning home-invasion robbery.

About 8:30 a.m. two people knocked on the door of a home at 179 Magnesium St. in a neighborhood south of Lake Mead Drive and Water Street, police said.

The victim opened the door, was hit in the head and tied up by the couple. They took an undisclosed amount of money and property, police said.

The robbers are described as white, a man and a woman, police said.

The woman is believed to be 40 years old, 5 feet 6 inches tall, 135 pounds, with brown hair and brown eyes. The man is between 40 and 45 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 180 pounds with brown hair.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Henderson Police at 565-2009 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Mother of infant arrested in Chicago

A woman believed to have been the mother of an infant found dead at a miniature golf course in southwestern Utah has been arrested in Chicago.

Rebekah Jolynn Woods, 34, was picked up in Chicago early Monday by a patrol officer who identified her from a nationwide database. She was being held on a drug charge.

On Feb. 8 a groundskeeper at the Fiesta Fun Center in St. George discovered the body of an infant boy in a pump house. About a week later, Woods' daughter turned up without her mother in Las Vegas and remains in foster care in Nevada.

Police believe the infant was abandoned on Jan. 23, four days after his birth in a St. George motel room. They do not know whether he was alive or dead when he was abandoned.

A number of people reportedly had offered the woman help before the baby was born, but she had turned down their offers.

EPA approves removal of trash

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday approved a plan to remove 100,000 cubic yards of trash dumped illegally at the closed Sunrise Mountain landfill.

Clark County and Republic Silver State Disposal Service can begin sometime this week hauling away the debris that would cover two football fields to a depth of 30 feet, EPA spokesman David Schmidt said.

The illegally dumped garbage is part of 1 million cubic yards of domestic wastes dumped outside the 726-acre landfill. Once the cleanup is complete sometime in April, local officials can repair a flood channel that overflowed in a September 1998 storm, sending tons of trash into the Las Vegas Wash, which drains into Lake Mead, Southern Nevada's major drinking water supply.

Ground water, methane gas, geology and other tests must be approved by the EPA before a permanent solution to the old landfill can be completed.

Issues briefing open to public

The American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada will host an open issues briefing with its national field organizer, Becky Dinwoodie.

Dinwoodie will join local ACLU staff to discuss issues that will be voted on in Congress this year.

The briefing will be held on March 20 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at UNLV's Moyer Student Union Fireside Lounge.

For information call 366-1266.