Las Vegas Police Focus On County Official In Killing Of Investigative Journalist: Report

Police executed search warrants at a county official’s house on Wednesday morning as a part of an investigation into the killing of Las Vegas Journal-Evaluation reporter Jeff German, authorities instructed the outlet.

Reporters with the Journal-Evaluation mentioned they noticed officers and police autos exterior the house of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, who was the main target of an investigation by the slain journalist earlier this 12 months. Police additionally reportedly taped off a part of Telles’ house.

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Division confirmed to HuffPost that it’s serving search warrants associated to German’s dying, however refused to say whether or not the search included Telles. Telles’ workplace didn’t reply to HuffPost’s requests for remark.

Police discovered German, 69, stabbed to dying exterior his Las Vegas house on Saturday morning. Authorities mentioned they imagine the reporter was killed throughout an altercation the day earlier than. The Clark County coroner dominated German’s dying a murder.

On Monday, police launched surveillance pictures of a attainable suspect within the killing. Whereas the photographs don’t present the particular person’s full face, they do present the particular person is sporting a large straw hat, vibrant orange long-sleeve shirt, denims, gloves, and a dark-colored shoulder bag. Police mentioned they imagine the suspect was casing the neighborhood to commit different crimes earlier than killing German.

Police additionally launched pictures of a 2007 to 2014 purple GMC Yukon Denali, which detectives mentioned was tied to the assault. Quickly after, reporters with the Evaluation-Journal mentioned they noticed Telles in his driveway with a automobile matching that description.

German joined the Evaluation-Journal in 2010 after working as a reporter and columnist for 20 years on the Las Vegas Solar, the place he lined courts, politics, labor, authorities and arranged crime. On the Evaluation-Journal, he was recognized for his investigations of presidency and political corruption, in addition to the 2017 mass taking pictures at a Las Vegas music pageant that killed 60 folks and wounded over 400.

In Could, German investigated the allegedly hostile work surroundings in Telles’ workplace, interviewing present and former workers who complained of bullying and favoritism. German additionally reported on accusations that Telles was in an improper relationship with a subordinate worker, proof of which different workers had secretly recorded on video.

Telles denied the allegations about his office to the Evaluation-Journal and lashed out at German in a sequence of Twitter posts that mentioned the journalist was “obsessed” with him and “mad that I haven’t crawled right into a gap and died.”

Telles misplaced his reelection bid within the June main after German’s sequence of tales about his workplace, which oversees the estates of those that have died.