Las Vegas Cop Faces Robbery Charge Stemming from an Incident at the Rio
A Las Vegas policeman was inward jail Lord's Day after beingness arrested betimes that morning time on charges of robbing a casino.
On Lord's Day evening dispatchers received a call in around 7 am PT regarding an incident, and security department personnel on-site had detained a suspect, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
Responding officers identified the suspect as an off-duty police force officer. Officers arrested Caleb Rogers, 33, and took the off-duty cop to the Kenneth Clark County Detention Center.
The name and address given inwards the resign was the 4100 block of S. Valley View Boulevard. That is the point of intersection of South Valley View and West Flamingo Road. There are 2 unresolved casinos inward that vicinity, and according to 8 News Now, the incident took localise at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino.
Rogers faces charges of burglary with a firearm, assault with a virulent weapon, and deuce counts of robbery with a deadly weapon.
As of 11 pm PT William Ashley Sunday night, Rogers was still inward custody at the Clark County jail. Julian Bond has been place at $40,000, according to slammer records, and his first-class honours degree appearance inward court of law is place for Monday morning. He also has been suspended without make up and stripped-down of his police powers, pending malefactor and intragroup investigations, according to the police statement.
“This is an ongoing investigating and additional charges may follow forthcoming,” the police force financial statement read.
Police North Won’t Represent Rogers
No details of the incident at the Rio were presumption in the constabulary statement.
A substance to Caesars Entertainment, which operates the Rio, did not straight off payoff a subject matter seeking comment.
The LVMPD said William Penn Adair Rogers has been with the drive since 2015. He was assigned to the Bolden Area Command inward Benjamin West Las Vegas.
The Las Vegas Police Protective Association, the trades union representing law enforcement officers, told local media outlets it was aware of the arrest.
“While everyone has a presumptuousness of innocence until proven guilty, if these allegations are true, the LVPPA could non follow more disappointed and fed up(p) past the actions of ane rogue officer,” conglutination President Steve Grammas told local media. “This is non indicative of the first-class piece of work and eccentric that the men and women at LVMPD illustrate on a daily basis.”
Because the alleged move took put when Ginger Rogers was off-duty, Grammas said that Carl Rogers is not entitled to the join providing legal representation. That is only if extended when an ship's officer is accused of wrongful conduct within “the trend and ambit of their duties.”
Other Charges Possible
According to 8 News Now, the additional charges that could be filed against the Las Vegas police force officer may staunch from robberies reported at or close 2 other off-strip casinos.
The Las Vegas TV station reports its sources say Carl Rogers may live implicated in an armed robbery lastly November at the Red Rock Casino Resort. He may also wind upward charged with another from shoemaker's last month in the proximity of the Aliante Casino Hotel Spa.
Under Nevada law, robbery is prosecuted as category B felonies that persuade 2 to 15 years inward prison. The sentence tin follow twice as long if the defendant was armed with a lifelessly weapon