Friday, May 11, 2001 | 10:57 a.m.
5-year-old hid in trunk
A 5-year-old boy found hiding in a car trunk last weekend died Thursday.
Michael Esposito was reportedly playing hide and go seek Sunday in a dirt lot behind the stands at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The boy apparently hid in the trunk of his mother's car.
He was in the trunk for about 30 minutes in 90-degree temperature before he was discovered. The boy was taken to University Medical Center but died Thursday at 5:33 p.m., officials said.
Suspect arrested in New Orleans
A 37-year-old local man wanted in a series of attacks on women was in the Clark County jail this morning after his weekend arrest in New Orleans just hours after he was featured on television's "America's Most Wanted."
Grady Mullins is accused of attacking several women between August and January.
Lt. Tom Monahan of Metro Police's sexual assault unit said the man who attacked the women wore some kind of mask and was armed with a weapon, sometimes pepper spray, a length of rope or a stun gun.
A viewer called in a tip Saturday night after a profile of Mullins appeared on the nationwide television program. The caller said Mullins was working in a nightclub in the French Quarter. Mullins was arrested early Sunday without incident, Monahan said.
Las Vegas man pleads guilty
A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to two counts of driving under the influence in connection with a February accident that took the life of a woman and seriously injured three others.
Jesus F. Perez was indicted Feb. 28 on four counts of DUI, four counts of reckless driving and an involuntary manslaughter count in the accident that claimed Raquel Grajeda's life on Feb. 12.
He pleaded guilty to DUI causing death and DUI causing substantial bodily harm.
Perez had been scheduled to go to trial Monday but pleaded guilty Thursday. He will be sentenced June 28 by District Judge Joseph Bonaventure.
Perez remains in custody on $700,000 bail.
Suit filed over nuke compensation
Members of the Navajo tribe and others living downwind of the Nevada Test Site filed a federal lawsuit Thursday in Washington, D.C., asking the Justice Department to initiate improved compensation benefits from radiation exposure approved by Congress last year.
Many of the Navajos, who were former uranium miners, and residents living in Utah and Arizona downwind from nuclear weapons experiments, said they had received IOUs rather than compensation payments, the lawsuit said.
Although the original 1990 compensation act was amended last year, the benefit fund ran out and the victims said they had not received checks.
Man taken to county jail
A 46-year-old man accused of threatening to kill Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman was charged with intimidating a public officer and held on $1,000 bond, Clark County jail officials said.
Russell is accused of calling and threatening the mayor over the controversy at MASH Village. Russell was questioned by Las Vegas marshals and arrested Tuesday. Goodman was not injured.
Russell also was accused of threatening a MASH Village employee several times last week.
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