KOH Special News Reports

Senate Republican Leader Michael Roberson is behind a ballot initiative that would add a "Sanctuary City" prohibition to the Nevada Constitution.

A Sparks man was convicted Friday of charges he robbed a Sun Valley convenience store at gunpoint last January. Prosecutors with the Washoe County District Attorney's office say 38-year-old Kalum Marcell Fortune was convicted on robbery and burglary charges following a week-long trial. He had been charged with robbing the B and T market on January 24th. Prosecutors say Fortune broke display items and knocked over a cash register, cutting himself in the process. Blood evidence was used to identify him through the FBI database of D-N-A. He was arrested in February. Fortune could be sentenced to as many as 25 years at his November first sentencing.

A Reno man has been sentenced to forty years in prison after being found guilty in a machete attack on his roommate last December. Forty-six year old Celestin Glenn Tappin was found guilty on April 27th of attempted murder, battery causing substantial bodily harm and mayhem, all with the use of a deadly weapon. Last December 22nd, Tappin went to his parents' home and, while drunk, talked about a murder at his home. Police rushed to the locaton and found Tappin's roommate bleeding heavily from multiple wounds. Investigators determined that Tappin and the roommate got into an argument and Tappin attacked the roommate with a machete. He will serve at least 16 years before he can be paroled.

Washoe County Sheriff’s Detectives continue investigating two large commercial burglaries that took place between Wednesday night and Friday morning at construction sites in different parts of the county.

The first is believed to have occurred sometime between 8:00 in the evening September 6th and 1:00 in the following morning at a site near the intersection of Hawco Court and Ingenuity Avenue in Spanish Springs. More than $100,000 worth of equipment and tools were stolen. Early Friday a burglary had occurred sometime overnight at a construction site near the intersection of Truckee Canyon Court and Canyon River Court east of Lockwood. Loss from this burglary was estimated at approximately $10,000 worth of equipment and tools.

A U.S. Air Force pilot based out of Nellis Air Force Base in the Las Vegas area has died of injuries suffered in a crash at a training range near Nellis. Officials at Nellis say Lieutenant Colonel Eric Schultz was killed during a training flight last Tuesday evening at the Nevada Test and Training Range. The aircraft was reportedly assigned to the Air Force Materiel Command. Air Force officials say the type of aircraft is classified.

A Reno man has been sentenced to forty years in prison after being found guilty in a machete attack on his roommate last December. Forty-six year old Celestin Glenn Tappin was found guilty on April 27th of attempted murder, battery causing substantial bodily harm and mayhem, all with the use of a deadly weapon. Last December 22nd, Tappin went to his parents' home and, while drunk, talked about a murder at his home. Police rushed to the locaton and found Tappin's roommate bleeding heavily from multiple wounds. Investigators determined that Tappin and the roommate got into an argument and Tappin attacked the roommate with a machete. He will serve at least 16 years before he can be paroled.

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