Custody after an 11 hour standoff. Tonight. Good news. Nicky made it out of surgery and is stable. The standoff near maryland and twain also lead to an evacuation. In which people were homes overnight. Thats where fox fives les krifaton is with the latest on this story. Metro first called out the swat team and then a k9 unit after negotiations with a man holed up inside an apartment failed. Metro wanted to take the man down without using much force and thats when the dog was sent in. This is a picture of sgt eric kerns and his k9 nicky an 8 year old belgium malinois. Friday sent in after a refused to come out of an apartment after an all night standoff. As the k9 dog was deployed the suspect was bit numerous times and the k9 dog was stabbed by the suspect numerous times by the head the suspect had to be taken to the hospital while k9 nicky was rushed to this emergency clinic. Metros Public Information officer jessee roybal said the decision to send the dog after the man was to minimize
Attorney i talked to says it usually takes this long to build a case. Fiore i have coined the blm to be a bureacracy of terror i will not back down on m opinion of that fiore it has politics written all over it bottom line politics written all over it Assembly Woman Michele Fiore isnt mincing words in her judgement of the federal government. And their arrest of nevada rancher cliven bundy. Fiore all these charges are bogus were talking about american cowboys bundy was taken into custody last wednesday at the Portland International airport. Bundy is facing six felony charges inlcuding assaulting a federal officer. All of the charges he faces stem from the 2014 stand off in bunkerville nevada. The bundy family tell fox 5 cliven was there to visit his sons ryan and ammon. Who were previously arrested for occupying the malheaur wildlife refuge in harney county. Drummond am i critical of the government for doing that do i think they are always correct who they hold accountable . Absolutely
Authorities. According to that report, police got a call from someone who knows Garcia Martinez on february 9th. They aranged to speak with garciamartinez and noticed the same van witnesses had been describing sitting in his driveway. During the interview Garcia Martinez said it was a dark colored car which hit 2year old evelyn green. He said that car sped away and he stopped, in his van, to help the little girl and her family. He eventually changed his story in another interview with police, saying while the dark car hit evelyn first, he might have accidently ran her over after not being able to swerve. He said he didnt Contact Police because he was scared. Soon as i heard the screaming, you know, thats when it happened. I seen the mother picking her up from there, running in here. There was no other car behind there, if there was a car behind him it wouldve been going real fast. I didnt see no vehicle. Neighbors say they didnt see a dark car, but North Las Vegas police say they cant
At the fox 5 forecast. Cassandra jones with fox5. The warming trend will continue for us this week with sunny skies a high of 76 degrees for monday tuesday. A system moving into our area from the Pacific Northwest will push more clouds into our could even trigger showers. With the increasing clouds we pick up stronger winds 1525 mph wednesday with a high of 80 degrees putting us 1 degree shy from tying the record. As the system moves drop our daytime high thursday to 71. The rest of the and staying warm with high s around 72 through the here is a look at your drive here are the accidents to watch out and alternate routes you can use listed on our maps here are the construciton areas to look out for and alternate routes listed on our maps here are your photos for the day back to the news desk. Highway patrol was busy this morning cleaning up a bad accident on the 215 beltway. Around 5am, all eastbound lanes were blocked as troopers cleared the debris from the roadways. From our crew on
Timmons is facing multiple charges. Including resisting a public officer with a firearm. Attacking a Police Animal. And damaging and destroying state property. Mistreating a Police Animal is a felony and is punishable with prison time and up to ten thousand dollars in fines. Two weeks ago today the Emergency Call Center for Las Vegas Metro police failed and today its still not known what caused it. Callers endured dropped calls and long wait times. And this failure comes just two months after a multi million upgrade to the 911 system. Fox 5s Cyndi Lundeberg has more on how the department is trying to prevent this from happening again. Metro says they dont know exactly what caused the six hour crash but believe it had to do with a surge of data which flooded their system and metro forwarded calls to North Las Vegas and henderson during the outage. Today we asked metro if there had been any complaints because of the failure they said there werent any that they were of. They did say with