Las Vegas Crime Roundup: Henry Ruggs Booked at Prison
Former NFL player Henry Ruggs III has been incarcerated at Nevada’s High Desert State Prison, according to a recent report.
Ruggs, 24, was set-aside(p) at the correctional facility placed close Red Indian Springs, Nev., the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported. The composite is placed well-nigh 40 miles north-west of Las Vegas.
This week, the Sagebrush State Department of Corrections released his booking photo to the media. Details on where he was placed inwards the prison were non released.
DUI Plea Deal
On Aug 9, Ruggs was sentenced to ternion to 10 years in prison house followers a plea deal in which he pled guilty to DUI resulting inward dying and vehicular manslaughter. His plea stems from a lifelessly crash on Las Vegas’s Rainbow Boulevard where Tina Tintor, 23, and her dog perished inward Nov 2021.
Prosecutors said he was impulsive as fast as 156 mph moments before the collision.
Other charges against Ruggs were dropped, including reckless driving, impulsive under the influence, causing material injury, and a gun charge. type A loaded firearm was found in his Corvette after the accident. Ruggs faced upwards to 50 years inward prison house if he had been convicted of those dropped charges, prosecutors said.
His blood alcoholic beverage dismantle was 0.16% after the collision, which is twice the legal limit point inwards Nevada.
Before existence sentenced, Ruggs apologized to Tintor’s family, his former team up (the Las Vegas Raiders), and his relatives.
O.J. Wallis Warfield Windsor Questions Sentence
The condemn before this month was questioned past former NFL lead and celebrity O. J. Simpson.
You’re impulsive a railroad car at rough 160 miles per minute on a public street and last upward kill a missy and her Canis familiaris and you let iii to x years?” Sir James Young Simpson posted on societal media.
Simpson noted own his prison house doom was for betwixt niner and 33 years.
Simpson referred to his judgment of conviction for the armed robbery of sports memorabilia from a room at the Palace Station Casino inward Sep 2007.
Boulder Station Casino Motorist Critically Injured
An unnamed device driver suffered vital injuries on Monday after his machine struck a palisade in a parking lot at the Boulder Station Hotel and Casino inwards Las Vegas.
The injuries to the 32-year-old were described as “life-threatening,” according to Las Vegas TV send KLAS.
It appears he was driving a 2003 Honda Accord at virtually 7:40 p.m. on Monday inward a parking lot due east of Boulder Station Casino when he smashed into a retaining paries and suffered unspecified injuries.
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) officers said impairment may get contributed to the crash, KLAS reported.
The driver was rushed to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center for handling on Monday evening. Police didn’t hold an updated status on the victim as of Tuesday.
No other vehicles were involved inward the crash, Las Vegas TV place KSNV reported.