Suspect in L.A. hot oil assault arrested in LV

Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2005 | 9:22 a.m.

Members of the Metro Police Fugitive Detail, armed with a warrant and a Las Vegas address, arrested Myles Gregory Westbrooks of Los Angeles for aggravated assault on Dec. 30.

Westbrooks is suspected of tipping over a 5-gallon pot of hot oil on another man, who was hospitalized for more than a month and may lose a leg, police said. The fight broke out at a fish fry in Los Angeles, where Westbrooks and his family ive.

Metro detectives arrested Westbrooks in the 2000 block of Garnet Gable Street without a struggle, and he was booked into the Clark County Detention Center on $1 million bail.

Westbrooks is awaiting extradition to California.

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