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Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 | 5:25 p.m.
Sabrina Reynolds
Domestic violence arrest
A North Las Vegas woman is in custody today after she threatened to burn her husband and set his apartment on fire, North Las Vegas Police said.
Dispatchers received a 911 call at about 12:45 p.m. reporting a violent domestic disturbance at 3300 Civic Center Drive near Cheyenne Avenue, said Officer Chrissie Coon, a spokeswoman for North Las Vegas Police.
After forcing herself into her husband's apartment, 38-year-old Sabrina Reynolds, armed with an accelerant and matches, threatened to burn down the apartment and set her husband on fire, police said. The man was able to get out of the apartment and get help.
Police officers arrived and evacuated four buildings in the apartment complex.
In addition, two local schools were placed on lockdown: Lois Craig Elementary School and Lincoln Elementary School.
After more than two hours, SWAT officers forced their way into the apartment and found Reynolds had set it on fire, Coon said.
Officers took her into custody without incident and booked her into the North Las Vegas Detention Center on one count of attempted murder and one count of first-degree arson.
North Las Vegas firefighters were on standby at the scene of the standoff and were able to extinguish the fire quickly, Coon said. No one suffered injuries during the incident, police said.
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north las vegas again, huh?...shocker.
He forgot their anniversary.
Steve,
You have as much creativity as a chimp with three chromosomes. You always write this crap. Come up with something new. TODAY there are two articles about a child molester and murder in Las Vegas, and you were called out by a staffer in one of them for not being able to read. The whole county has issues with crime, shut up unless you can say anything new. The people in aliante and eldarodao, and many of the other nice places in the dreaded NLV are sick of hearing it. Go sell another 500,000 dollar home to a mechanic and a stripper (then blame them). There is a rough area from Sahara up to about Lake Mead, that has some poverty stricken areas, but most of the people there are good, just not much money. I hate people like you who think you are so much better than everyone else. Go away...... please, By the way vegas lead today in negative articles 2-1, but you only commented on this one. You are a dic!
travislv86
I used to live in NLV and both places were in nice neighborhoods. it's too bad it gets the bad rap that it does becuase 95% of NLV isn't anythinglike the OLD NLV, in fact not even close to the old area. Just like Las Vegas, there are good areas and bad. for instance the alphabet streets. bad area for sure and NOT in NLV. It's to bad they never renamed the new secstions of NLV because they will always have that "bad area' label.
someone defending north las vegas has to use foul language...and can't even spell it right...shocker, huh?
Rush Limbaugh has "Rio Lindo" and SteveM has North Las Vegas.
bigb..."darkies"? You are a racist, and probably not very smart. You probably parked your car and forgot to turn off the ignition.
Crazy people are everywhere. I like North las Vegas.