KOH Special News Reports

South Lake Tahoe Police have arrested a man they say robbed the South Lake Tahoe branch of El Dorado Savings bank on Al Tahoe Boulevard early this (Friday) afternoon. Police say he walked into the bank a little before one and demanded money, but did not show a weapon. He ran off after getting an unspecified amount of cash. Detectives say their investigation identified 36-year-old Gabriel Antonio Evans, of South Lake Tahoe as a suspect. An arrest warrant was obtained for Evans and a search warrant for his home on Riverside Avenue. Police say since Evans has a violent criminal history they used a special weapons and tactics team to take him into custody. He was arrested at 7:45 this evening on suspicion of robbery.

Nevada Attorney General Adam Paul Laxalt has announced the indictment of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Jeff Lynn Harper. He is facing six felony charges, including insurance fraud, theft, third degree arson and burning of property with the intent to defraud. The charges stem from the January 2016 burning of his own R/V. According to the indictment, the vehicle fire occurred on a road approximately two miles south of State Route 160 in Clark County. The cause of the fire was "incendiary in nature," and the investigation conducted by the Fire Department concluded that Harper, the owner of the vehicle, was the perpetrator of the fire.

Sparks Police are asking for help locating a suspect who reportedly stole a wallet from a victim who was gambling at the Rail City Casino on Victorian in Sparks. Police say a 61-year-old disabled man was gambling when a black or Hispanic man waited for the victim to be distracted and stole his wallet from his pocket at about 4:30 this (Friday) morning. The victim was not injured and no threats were made to him. The suspect was last seen running eastbound from the casino. He's described as a tall light skinned black or hispanic man with possibly dyed reddish blonde hair in his 20;s, wearing a Los Angeles Angels baseball cap and a blue dress type shirt buttoned to the collar and wrists, with a gold colored chain worn on the outside of the shirt.

A suspect in a 1976 murder of a Reno coed has been found incompetent to represent himself in a California murder case yesterday in San Mateo County. Rodney Lynn Halbower will return to court July 7 to enter a plea and to set a preliminary hearing date. Halbower was linked in 2014 to two unsolved murders of teenage girls in San Mateo County’s Gypsy Hill area. He was also tied by DNA to the 1976 murder of University of Nevada, Reno student Michelle Mitchell in Reno. Reno bar manager Cathy Woods was originally convicted, but was later exonerated through DNA testing.

Renown Health has agreed to pay $9.5 million to settle a Medicare fraud allegation brought against it by the federal government. Renown decided to settle the complaint rather than pursue a costly defense. The case began when a former Renown employee, Cecilia Guardiola, filed suit in June 2012 against Renown under whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. Her lawsuit said Renown submitted false Medicare claims for inpatient hospital services over several years, that should have been billed on a less expensive outpatient or observation basis.

South Lake Tahoe Police are looking for a man who robbed the South Lake Tahoe branch of El Dorado Savings bank on Al Tahoe Boulevard early this afternoon.

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