Abigail Goldman

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Suburb to get the lead out of gun range: Saturday, June 27, 2009; North Las Vegas Police have pumped about 2 million bullets into their firing range over the past 30 years — that’s the conservative estimate. Next month, a Colorado company will remove and recycle most of that spent lead, sifting through the sand for three decades’ bullets, shotgun pellets and rifle rounds.
U.S. guns are crossing border, but how many?: Some questioning report that nation is top supplier of Mexican criminals; Thursday, June 25, 2009; Fourteen guns were seized after a deadly drug raid on a house in Tijuana, Mexico, in October. Five of those guns reportedly had been purchased in Las Vegas.
Suddenly, on the brink of homelessness: Loss of work, medical costs slam family that never expected trouble; Sunday, June 21, 2009; The homeless shelter is as near as next month’s rent for Christine Reynolds, who has enough money to clear one more payment and after that — no clue. Her breast cancer complicates things. So do her eight children — particularly 4-year-old Mallory, who has a chromosomal condition called Turner syndrome. The rest of the family — the parents, the other kids, ages 3 through 23 — could live in the family cars if they have to. They could live in any shelter able to house a big family if they have to. But Mallory has a heart condition and environmental allergies.
Police enlist teammates in unsafe areas: Partnering with residents led to dramatic results, UNLV study found; Thursday, June 18, 2009; Luis Bernabe was 16 years old when police found him lying on a sidewalk in North Las Vegas, bleeding from fatal gunshot wounds.
Toast this recession loser: Ponzi schemes: FBI investigators swamped as investor fears hasten scams’ inevitable discovery; Tuesday, June 16, 2009; The FBI has opened a new Ponzi scheme investigation nearly every day for the past eight months, according to Las Vegas special agent Joseph Dickey. This is a considerable jump, one Dickey and fellow agents attribute to the economy and the nature of the crime.
Complications abound when identity stolen is a patient’s: Sunday, June 14, 2009; Scott Bennett has gone to Las Vegas Valley hospitals for medical care dozens of times in the past five years — impressive for a Texan who hasn’t set foot in Nevada since 1998.
‘Identity theft buffet’ lands ex-broker in court: Feds blaming trash bin full of financial records on local no longer licensed; Friday, June 12, 2009; Forty boxes of paperwork were found in a trash bin on Decatur Boulevard in December 2006 — boxes that Metro Police seized for safekeeping because they appeared to contain sensitive financial information.
Web chatter ahead of police in revealing details of crime: Sunday, June 7, 2009; Metro Police announced very little about the arrest of Tanner Rousseau, except that he was 18 and booked on murder charges in connection with a fatal stabbing in the Tropicana parking lot. But almost immediately, his friends told the world a lot more — online.
A new way to pay for breast implants: Idea born in Vegas: Web site links donors, women wanting implants; Monday, June 1, 2009; What Susan wanted was simple: She wanted her husband to come home from Iraq and she wanted breast implants. She couldn’t do much about the war — but the bigger breasts she couldn’t afford? She got them for free.
Police evidence for sale: Big, odd or out of date, items from Metro’s vault have hit the market; Thursday, May 28, 2009; Most of the items in Metro’s evidence vault are what you’d expect: stolen car stereos, bloody clothing from crime scenes, weapons seized during investigations. But you wouldn’t have counted on the hot air balloon or the box of cremated remains sitting on evidence vault director Sheri Bingham’s desk last week.