Metro Cops Search for Summerlin, Nev. Casino Parking Lot Carjacking Suspect

Nevada law uphold to inquire this week’s carjacking in the parking lot of Summerlin’s Red John Rock Casino Resort Spa. The surmise appears to remain at large as of this weekend.

On Midweek night, a silver saloon pulled upwardly to an unnamed adult female in the lot. An armed piece exited the railroad car and ordered her to round o'er the keys to her 2021 whitened Toyota Sienna.

The dupe complied and handed o'er her property,” constabulary said in a statement. The suspect so fled in the car.

He brandished a small-arm during the 11:28 pm holdup. The suspect was described as being in his 20s.

The woman did not suffer any physical injuries, according to initial police reports.

Some 40 proceedings later, constabulary found the Toyota inwards Orient Charleston. The gondola was untenanted and police force began to search for the suspect.

The carjacking was the secondly such offense inwards Summerlin taking put in the cobbler's last deuce weeks, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. On Sept. 2, a different adult female was assaulted and robbed inward a different parking lot, law said.

“(She) was approached inwards the parking lot by ii (to) quaternion suspects who took her purse, striking her on the position of the head word and stole her lily-white Mercedes,” law said inward a statement quoted by the Review-Journal.

The suspects then fled the area. It did non come along they had been apprehended as of earliest this week.

The woman’s injuries did not come out to be life-threatening, based on initial law reports.

Earlier Carjackings

In an unrelated incident, NV Highway Patrol state trooper Micah May died during a July 27 law pursual of a carjacking surmise on Interstate 15 near Sahara Desert Avenue inward Las Vegas. The incident took localise close the Las Vegas Strip. Several big casinos are situated inwards the area.

May was struck spell deploying stop-sticks on I-15 attempting to apprehend the armed carjacking suspect. The surmise was later crack idle past police force on the highway, as he appeared to follow reaching for the trooper’s firearm.

In May, at that place also was an armed carjacking in Reno. Marcus Mendez, 18, initially went upward to another man. Mendez, who was armed, and then allegedly demanded the victim’s keys. The surmise drove aside from the scene inwards the stolen car, constabulary said.

Later, the automobile was found close the Peppermill Resort Spa Casino inward Reno. It had crashed. Mendez was later arrested, KOLO, a local TV station, reported.

Jump in Carjackings

In February, Las Vegas Metro constabulary Capt. Fred Haas said the section saw virtually a 30 percent leap inwards carjackings based on data from earliest this year, the Review-Journal said.