News briefs for May 28, 2002

Tuesday, May 28, 2002 | 9:04 a.m.

Man arrested in shooting death

Metro Police have arrested a 19-year-old Las Vegas man in connection with the killing of a 20-year-old during a confrontation early Friday morning between two groups in a bar parking.

Nerron Davon Wormley, 19, faces murder charges after Joseph E. DelaCruz was apparently shot trying to stop two men from fighting outside Hurricane Harry's on Sahara Avenue at Decatur Boulevard, Metro Police said.

Metro searched Wormley's residence on Tropicana Avenue and recovered a handgun, homicide Lt. Tom Monahan said.

Nellis training will keep skies busy

Southern Nevada residents will notice an increase in the amount of military aircraft in the skies beginning this week.

The Air Force Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base will be conducting training beginning Thursday and lasting through June 12.

The weapons school will be launching 50 to 85 aircraft a day during the training, with most of the flights taking place before 7 p.m., although there will be some flights taking off from 9 p.m. to midnight.

In addition, the German Air Force will be conducting training at Nellis on June 4, 6 and 11, using about 40 aircraft.

The weapons school is a graduate level instructor course designed to provide realistic advance training in weapons and tactics.

Air Force secretary visits LV conference

Air Force Secretary James Roche was scheduled to be in Las Vegas today to host the National Image Training Conference at Bally's, which runs through Friday.

The annual conference is put on by National Image Inc., an organization committed to the improvement of education, employment and equal opportunity for Hispanics.

The conference includes federal agency training, job fair exhibits, youth day and an awards banquet to salute Hispanics in the military.

Indictment charges smuggled drugs

A federal indictment alleges that a smuggling scheme involving misbranded drugs may have cost Nevada residents at least $269,200.

Christian Frederic Finze, who operated businesses known as Vinci-Online.com and Vinci American Ltd., is named in the indictment, and is alleged to have shipped misbranded pharmaceuticals from Germany to fill online orders between October 1998 and May 2002.

Information required to appear on the pharmaceutical labeling, including directions for use, was written in German, and the drugs were dispensed without valid prescriptions from practitioners licensed by law to prescribe such drugs, according to the indictment.

Finze is facing allegations of conspiracy, conspiracy to distribute controlled substances, introduction of misbranded drugs and smuggling.

Convicted killer dies in prison

Melvin Geary, who was sentenced to death for a 1992 murder in Reno soon after his parole for a 1974 murder, died Sunday at the High Desert State Prison near Indian Springs.

Geary, 71, died shortly before noon at the infirmary after suffering a stroke, said prison spokesman Glen Whorton.

Geary suffered the stroke last week at the Ely State Prison and was taken to University Medical Center.

Geary was sentenced to death by injection for the 1992 stabbing death of roommate Edward Colvin of Reno, who took Geary in after he had lost a job.

Geary previously was sentenced to life without parole for the 1974 stabbing death of Annette Morris in Las Vegas.

He was paroled three times from that sentence, but each time was arrested for drinking and imprisoned again. After serving a total of 13 years, he was paroled a fourth time and a month later was arrested for Colvin's murder.