News briefs for May 14, 2002

Tuesday, May 14, 2002 | 11:05 a.m.

Prison inmate named suspect

A 29-year-old man currently in a Nevada prison was expected to be charged today in the June 2001 slaying of an 84-year-old woman.

Metro Police this morning were seeking an arrest warrant charging Glenn Anderson Mundo with murder, burglary, sexual assault and grand larceny auto, Lt. Tom Monahan said.

Mundo is accused of breaking into a home in the 1600 block of Linn Lane near Owens Avenue in June, killing Virginia E. Peart and taking her car.

Mundo is in Southern Desert Correctional Center near Indian Springs on a 32-month sentence for a probation violation.

Grisly discovery made under floor

A body was found beneath the floor of a downtown apartment Monday after maintenance workers reported a foul odor.

A Las Vegas Fire Department crew discovered the body at the apartment in the 500 block of South Maryland Parkway after cutting a slab of concrete from the floor.

The body had not been identified this morning, but Metro Police believe it may be a person reported missing in February, homicide Lt. Tom Monahan said.

The missing person had been living in the apartment with Gregory Michael Stiegler, 36, who had been there until two week ago. Anyone with information of his whereabouts is asked to call Secret Witness at 385-5555 or the Homicide Section at 229-3521.

Accountant named to state panel

Michael Small, a certified public accountant in Las Vegas, has been named to the Economic Forum, the group of lay persons who predict future state tax collections.

Small is a tax director in the Las Vegas office of Deloitte and Touche LLP.

Assembly Speaker Richard Perkins, D-Henderson, made the selection today.

The forum makes projections on the tax collections every two years and the state budget is built on that forecast.

Five in one family killed

A suspected drunken driver slammed into a van on Interstate 80 near Reno, killing five family members and injuring seven other people, authorities said.

The car driver, Stephen Henry Scharosch, 51, was arrested after the accident Monday evening about 20 miles east of Reno.

Scharosch apparently was driving his Ford Mustang in the wrong direction on the freeway, authorities said.

The sister of the driver's wife and her 4-year-old died and and the driver's three children died at the scene. The driver's wife was in critical condition today at Washoe Medical Center and a 2-year-old "is clinging to life."

Pool too murky to see into

A 4-year-old boy drowned Sunday in a pool after his parents lost sight of him.

The parents searched for the boy, but the water in the pool at a home in the 4800 block of San Sebastian Avenue near Nellis Boulevard and Flamingo Road was so murky Xavier Deshaun Green could not be seen in the pool, Clark County fire officials said.

The boy's parents called Metro Police about 4 p.m. Sunday reporting him missing after searching for about an hour. Police looked in the pool but did not see the boy. Firefighters were called about 5 p.m. to check the pool and discovered the boy's body, fire officials said.