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Police arrest Vegas-area elected official [D] in reporter death
https://www.sltrib.com ^ | Sept 8, 2022

Posted on 09/08/2022 5:00:38 PM PDT by 11th_VA

LAS VEGAS (AP) • A Las Vegas-area elected public official was arrested Wednesday as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his primary loss in June.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by police SWAT officers hours after investigators served a search warrant and confiscated vehicles in the criminal probe of the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the newspaper.

Telles, 45, had been a focus of German’s reporting about turmoil including complaints of administrative bullying, favoritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer in the county office that handles property of people who die without a will or family contacts.

The newspaper’s executive editor, Glenn Cook, said in a statement that “the arrest of Robert Telles is at once an enormous relief and an outrage for the Review-Journal newsroom.”

“We are relieved Robert Telles is in custody and outraged that a colleague appears to have been killed for reporting on an elected official,” Cook said.

Telles did not immediately respond Wednesday to telephone messages at his county office, and it was not immediately clear following his arrest if he had an attorney who could speak on his behalf. The county administrator office was closed.

German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and organized crime.

Telles, a lawyer who practiced probate and estate law, won his elected position in 2018, replacing a three-term public administrator. He lost his June party primary to Assistant Public Administrator Rita Reid. Telles’ term expires Dec. 31.

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1 posted on 09/08/2022 5:00:38 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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To: 11th_VA

Joe Biden and the MAGGOT Democrats represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic.


2 posted on 09/08/2022 5:02:40 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: 11th_VA

Every Democrat thinks they are Hillary Clinton now.


3 posted on 09/08/2022 5:05:03 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party is criminal, unAmerican and illegitimate )
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To: 11th_VA

A reminder of how far corrupt Demonrats will go when threatened with Truth.


4 posted on 09/08/2022 5:07:38 PM PDT by 230FMJ (...from my cold,them to be. dead, fingers.)
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To: 11th_VA

Note the last name of the person who beat him in the primary.


5 posted on 09/08/2022 5:09:57 PM PDT by robowombat (Orth,He looks like the sex all y one )
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To: TigersEye

Exactly.


6 posted on 09/08/2022 5:12:02 PM PDT by Track9 (You are far too inquisitive not to be seduced…)
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To: 11th_VA

Used to deliver the RJ when I was a teenager.


7 posted on 09/08/2022 5:17:54 PM PDT by shawnlaw
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To: 11th_VA; All

Proving once again that Socialist Democrats are insane killers.

Babies, in the womb or freshly born! The Elderly. You. Me.

It matters not!

*SPIT*


8 posted on 09/08/2022 5:23:05 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: 11th_VA

And yet,, not one single major media market bothered to include that he is a Democrat


9 posted on 09/08/2022 5:34:36 PM PDT by digger48
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To: 11th_VA

Well..what do you all expect from the new mob that replaced the old mob?

There have hits like this going on since the Klintoons got in.

This guy was just sloppy.


10 posted on 09/08/2022 6:15:23 PM PDT by crz
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To: 11th_VA

I’ve always known that Democrats were stupid, this is further verification of the fact.


11 posted on 09/08/2022 6:46:52 PM PDT by wjcsux (RIP Rush Limbaugh 12 Jan 1951- 17 Feb 2021. We really miss you. 😢)
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To: wjcsux

Democrats are not stupid. They are wicked and evil. There is a difference.


12 posted on 09/08/2022 6:52:46 PM PDT by sport
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To: digger48

CNN, Newsweek, CBS & NBC News, WaPo, NY Times & NY Post all reported on his political affiliation.


13 posted on 09/08/2022 7:32:48 PM PDT by Coronal
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To: Coronal

Not the coverage I saw


14 posted on 09/08/2022 9:18:11 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

Then you weren’t looking. I Googled it and found those references.


15 posted on 09/08/2022 9:46:22 PM PDT by Coronal
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