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Monday, Jan. 28, 2013 | 11 p.m.
Booking photo of Assemblyman Steven Brooks of North Las Vegas.
Assemblyman Steven Brooks, who is accused of threatening a Democratic Assembly leader, remained hospitalized Monday for a mental evaluation, while his court date was canceled with no charges filed.
Brooks' lawyer, Mitchell Posin, said he wasn't sure when Brooks' 72-hour medical evaluation, which began Friday, would be completed. Posin declined to say where the 40-year-old Democratic lawmaker was being treated.
"He's pleased they have not filed charges — yet, anyway," the lawyer said.
Prosecutor Thom Gover, the deputy state attorney general handling Brooks' case, said he would have asked a judge on Monday for 30 more days to file a criminal charge because he was waiting for North Las Vegas police to complete their investigation.
Gover also said that he was aware that a lawyer for a key witness, Las Vegas City Councilman Ricki Barlow, issued a statement Friday denying police accounts of Brooks' Jan. 19 arrest.
Police reported that officers began looking for Brooks after Barlow told state Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-North Las Vegas, that he believed Brooks meant to harm incoming Assembly Speaker Marilyn Kirkpatrick.
Barlow's lawyer, Adam Levine, said Barlow was concerned for Brooks' health and well-being, but he didn't tell Atkinson that Brooks threatened anyone, including Kirkpatrick.
Police had said Barlow told Atkinson about a threat, and that Atkinson told Kirkpatrick.
On Monday, Atkinson released a statement saying he became involved because he knew Brooks had been released from a care facility late Jan. 18, and, "I did not want anyone getting hurt, including Steven."
"Councilman Barlow stated that Steven 'had it in for Marilyn Kirkpatrick' and blamed her for his life spiraling out of control. With that information and because many of us had been concerned about Steven's emotional state over the past few months, I felt I should notify" Kirkpatrick and Assembly Democratic Majority Leader William Horne, Atkinson said.
North Las Vegas Police Officer Chrissie Coon, a department spokeswoman, said Monday that police reported what officers were told the day Brooks was arrested. She said detectives were still investigating.
Brooks lawyer, Posin, denied a threat was made.
Brooks was arrested nine days ago in a car with a gun and ammunition in a shoe box. The arrest began a week of sometimes bizarre developments. He spent a night in jail on a felony charge of intimidating a public officer by threat of physical violence before being released Jan. 20 on $100,000 bail.
He missed a Tuesday news conference that he scheduled, while Posin said he was hospitalized for treatment of what the lawyer characterized as internal bleeding from a pre-existing condition.
Last Wednesday, Brooks made a brief appearance at Nevada's statehouse, flanked by legislative police officers and concealing his face.
Brooks has vowed to serve his elected office when the state Legislature convenes Feb. 4.
On Friday, Las Vegas police called to a domestic disturbance at Brooks' grandmother's house turned Brooks over to medical officials for evaluation. He was not arrested.
Officer Jose Hernandez said Monday the mental referral was made to protect Brooks from harming himself or other people.
Please give him a break. He's a Democrat. Were he a Republican---we would burn him at the stake.
Here we go again! "Special" treatment for "special" folks! First, Kirkpatrick gets the wagons circled around her when allegedly targeted by the creepy-crawler, Brooks. Not that the authorities ought to take a threat to ones life casually. But, as the establishment raced to "protect" Kirpatrick, would they have done so for, say, an unknown Jane Doe? Not so much. Then the creepola, Brooks, gets released quickly on minimum bail, gets his court date postponed and apparently will keep his bureaucratic job at taxpayer expense. Nice work if you can get it. It's apparent Brooks has a screw loose, but what about the rest of the establishment? Are they just as nuts as he is?
maybe this guy's on obama's visitation list today
the uneducated and ignorant people who voted for this guy also voted for obama, too
they are the obama-ites
take a good look at your communistic democrat culmination of all those voter registration drives in welfare offices and drivers license dmv's
the new elected face of 99% black, 71% spanish, and 65% single welfare mothers - hard core communist democrat constituencies along with mostly immigrant lower class asians and most homosexuals
save this guy's picture and show it to your kids of what NOT to become
As a politico he gets to use his Get Out Of Jail FREE card and then Pass Directly to Go..er, Carson City where they hold a banquet for his quick recovery while being carried in on the Dems shoulders while singing "For he's a jolly good fellow" as What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas.