Las Vegas Vagrant Threatens to Kill, Eat Police Officers Near Casino, Cops Reveal

A suspected floater who allegedly threatened to obliterate and eat Las Vegas law officers, and expectoration at a law car, remains in clink today. He was 1st spotted past Metro cops laying on a sidewalk in front end of TX Station Gambling Granville Stanley Hall and Hotel on Wednesday.

Police went upwards to the man, later identified as Kenneth Prescott, 47, whose endure known name and address is Las Vegas. He was sleeping on the sidewalk.

Officers told him he had to displace from the sidewalk. He simply stared support at the officers, KLAS, a local TV station, reported.

An officer and then asked him for his name. He replied “John Doe.” He and then said he had no name.

Then officers warned him, they would follow forced to incarcerate him if he did non ply his identity. Prescott started to yell obscenities at them, KLAS said. He refused to go away to jail.

He so got up, walked to a Metro police car, and spitting on it, authorities said. Then, Prescott escalated the situation.

He pose up his fists. He told the cops he was “ready” for a fight, KLAS said. Soon, he picked upward a rock.

Then, he walked toward a nearby jalopy stop. He kept tossing the careen inwards the air.

He then threatened to wipe out and eat on the officers, KLAS said. He set the rock downwardly but did not run away from the rock. He did non follow orders from the officers.

Police Fire Taser

Police officers eventually fired a taser to daze Prescott. He was apprehended. He remained inward custody at the Mark Clark County Detention Center as of late Saturday.

He was supercharged with intimidating a public officer, resisting with a mortal(a) weapon, and vagrancy. If convicted, he could terminate upwards incarcerated.

Texas Station is temporarily closed, according to online websites. It has been shuttered since the COVID-19 pandemic. It may reopen next year.

Wounded Police Officer Paralyzed

In an unrelated incident, a adult male confessed to shot a Las Vegas Metro police force officer in 2020. He was sentenced in April to at least 20 years in prison.

The shooting took localise exterior of genus Circus Circus Hotel & Casino. It left hand the ship's officer mostly paralyzed.

Las Vegas District Judge Carli Kierny gave Edgar Samaniego the maximum sentence. In November, he pled hangdog to several charges for the June 1, 2020 wounding of Officer Shay Mikalonis.

Mikalonis remains wheelchair-bound from the wounds. He is paralyzed from the neck opening down. Nurses want to cater him canonic charge circular the clock.

The slug went through and through Mikalonis’ backbone and became lodged in his face, KVVU, another local TV station, reported. Doctors at Las Vegas’ University Medical Center were able to lay aside his lifespan despite a heights risk of infection of death. UMC surgeons removed a bullet from his body.

Then, he went to a specialized rehabilitation centre of attention in Colorado. Last year, he came rearward to Las Vegas.