Local news briefs for June 5, 2000

Monday, June 5, 2000 | 11:48 a.m.

Police investigate weekend slaying

Metro Police detectives are investigating a weekend slaying that left a man dead on a second-floor walkway at an East Harmon Avenue apartment complex.

Police were called to the Harbor Island apartments in the 300 block of East Harmon Avenue about 6:30 p.m. Saturday and found the man's body.

Witnesses told detectives they heard an argument between two men and saw them fighting on the walkway, police said.

Witnesses said that moments later they saw one of the men running from the area, police said.

The slain man's name was not released this morning pending notification of his family.

Anyone with information in this case is asked to call Metro's homicide unit at 229-3521 or Secret Witness at 385-5555.

Autopsy planned in man's stabbing

An autopsy is scheduled for today to determine how a 47-year-old man died.

The man's body was found about 11 a.m. Sunday at the Wildwood Apartments in the 4800 block of East Tropicana Avenue, Metro Police said.

The man apparently died from stab wounds, but an autopsy will determine if the wounds were self inflicted, officials said.

State election chief Crowell resigns

Nevada's election chief Pamela Crowell has resigned from the job she has held for more than four years.

Crowell said she needs time to pay "attention to myself, my family and my home."

Secretary of State Dean Heller said Susan Morandi, a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Howard McKibben in Reno, will succeed Crowell starting today in the $46,350-a-year job.

As deputy secretary of state in charge of elections, Crowell handled the statewide elections, the proposed initiative petitions for the ballot and the reports of campaign financing.

United flight to Las Vegas diverted

A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Las Vegas was diverted to Denver on Saturday after a group of flight attendants complained of being dizzy and lightheaded.

A United spokesman said five flight attendants were taken to University Hospital, but a hospital spokeswoman said six patients were treated and released.

None of the 297 passengers or pilots reported any symptoms and no problems were found with the plane, the spokesman said.

The cause of the dizziness was not known.

After the plane landed in Denver, the attendants were replaced by another group.

Flight 1047 continued to Las Vegas and arrived more than two hours behind schedule.

Enforcement effort nets three violators

Three illegal dumpers were caught during a concentrated effort to enforce trash laws Friday and Saturday in Clark County.

Eighteen representatives of four governmental agencies participated in the fifth annual "Catch a Dumper Days."

"We'll find anything from construction debris and landscaping waste to private people just dumping in the desert," said Barry Lagan, spokesman for Clark County Solid Waste Environmental Protection Team.

The punishment for illegal dumping includes fines of up to $2,000 as well as a requirement to clean up the trash.

If illegal dumpers are not caught, private parties or the federal Bureau of Land Management must clean up the trash.

Illegal dumping can be reported to the team at (702) 455-4191.