News briefs for October 24, 2001

Wednesday, Oct. 24, 2001 | 9:31 a.m.

Police say car used as weapon

A man suffered serious injuries when he was hit by a car Tuesday near Boulder Highway and Lake Mead Drive after an argument with another man at a nearby casino, Henderson Police said.

Police say James Miley, 24, was intentionally hit by a car about 4:20 a.m. near Terrible's Town Casino on Boulder Highway. Miley was recovering at University Medical Center from broken bones and bruises on his face and head.

Joseph Raper has been charged with attempted murder, police said.

During an argument with Raper, Police said, Miley was asked by security to leave the casino and started walking north on Boulder Highway. Raper and another man, John Simmons, later left the casino in a car and drove north on Boulder Highway, where they spotted Miley, police said.

After another argument, police allege, Raper drove onto the the curb, striking Miley.

Middle school teacher arrested

A middle school teacher was arrested Tuesday and accused of setting off a homemade bomb near a parked Metro Police car in Overton last summer.

Carl Walter Lee, 46, was booked into the Clark County jail on three felony charges related to making or using a bomb, Metro said.

Lee is accused of filling a small propane canister -- such as those used in camping stoves -- with black powder and lighting a fuse near an unoccupied police car parked at the officer's home on July 9, Lt. John Alamshaw said.

The bomb exploded, but the blast did not damage the car, police said.

Lee had no previous criminal record, and investigators didn't find any previous contact with the officer, Alamshaw said.

Lee is a special education teacher at Marvin M. Sedway Middle School in North Las Vegas. He has been a teacher for the Clark County School District for 11 years, said Mary Stanley-Larsen, a School District spokeswoman.

Hornet pilot ejects safely

Military officials are investigating the crash Tuesday of a Navy F/A-18 about 20 miles west of the Nevada Test Site, near the Nellis Air Force Range.

The pilot, Navy Lt. Micah Manningham ejected safely, and an HH-60 Pavehawk helicopter from the Nellis 66th Rescue Squadron picked him up shortly after the 10:10 a.m. accident. The jet was destroyed.

Manningham is assigned to the Strike Fighter Squadron 105, known as the "Gunslingers," based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va.

The F/A-18C Hornet fighter was flying as part of a nonspecified mission, Master Sgt. Charles Ramey said. The Navy unit is at Nellis Air Force Base as part of the monthlong Red Flag military training exercises.

Car strikes motorcycle cop

A Metro Police officer suffered minor injuries Tuesday when a car struck him from behind as he wrote a traffic citation.

Officer Daniel Newberry, 25, was treated and released from University Medical Center after being hit on Cheyenne Avenue west of Grand Canyon Drive about 1:30 p.m.

Newberry had stopped a motorist for a traffic violation in the right travel lane of eastbound Cheyenne, police said.

Newberry had parked his motorcycle -- the lights were flashing to warn eastbound motorists -- behind the car, but the driver of a 1990 Chevrolet sedan hit Newberry, lifting him over the car he had pulled over, police said.

Police say that the driver of the Chevrolet, a 67-year-old Las Vegas woman, had looked down and failed to see the officer. When she looked up and saw him she hit her brakes, but she struck the officer, police said.

The accident remains under investigation.

Vouchers worth $1.4 million

have been received by Las Vegas Housing Authority from the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The vouchers will help place 200 nonelderly disabled people in subsidized housing. For more information call 922-6950.

State employees will still be able

to have drug prescriptions filled at Vons, Safeway and Rite Aid after Jan. 1. The state Public Employees Benefits Committee voted last month to remove the stores from pharmacies where state employees could obtain prescriptions under the state insurance plan. The three businesses have since agreed to match discounts being given by other stores under a new contract.

Henderson Police

will soon be using two new all-terrain vehicles to help with off-road enforcement. The ATVs will be donated Thursday to the department by LandWell Co. and Commerce Associates, two companies involved in a new Henderson master-planned golf community. The ATVs will be used to patrol outlying areas, trails and washes and in searches for missing hikers and children.