Smack is Back

From the Las Vegas Sun: Metro Police have seized 75 percent more heroin this year than they did in the same period of last year. In fact, eight months into 2009, and the department is less than 150 grams shy of seizing more heroin than it did throughout 2008, echoing reports from law enforcement agencies [...]

Indictments Handed Down in Stephens-Hudson Murders

The lede of the Las Vegas Review-Journal article this evening didn’t exactly thrill me: Three men accused of executing and robbing two alleged drug dealers were indicted Wednesday by a Clark County grand jury. The sum total of the lives of my young friends, Paul Stephens and Brian Hudson, amounted to much more than mere [...]

Hard Times in Vegas

A quick scan of Metro Police Bookings between June 29 and July 5 via View News reveals a rapid decline in drug possession and intent to sell arrests and a startling increase in bookings for soliciting or engaging in prostitution and loitering for prostitution. Just last week we noted an increase in drug arrests and [...]

A Few of Them are Actually Smiling

Wanna see mug shot photos of 13 strippers who were busted by Vegas P.D. Monday morning for soliciting prostitution? You know you do. You’re welcome.

New Cover for Joe McGinniss Jr.’s “The Delivery Man”

To the best of my knowledge, this is the fifth printing of Joe’s terrific Vegas-based novel; if you have not read it yet, your knowledge of contemporary youth culture is seriously lacking. (Walter Kirn’s review of Methland in the Sunday New York Times Book Review, which we discussed here, brought TDM to mind over the weekend). I [...]