Police are serving search warrants in connection with a longtime Las Vegas reporter’s homicide.
Officials are serving search warrants in the 7200 block of Bronze Circle, Las Vegas, the area where prominent Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German lived, the Police Department confirmed to the Washington Examiner. However, reporters from the Las Vegas Review-Journal observed that uniformed officers and police vehicles were outside the home of Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, which is not in the 7200 block.
The department did not specify the targets of the warrants, stating no other information was available at this time, but it did say the death is being investigated as a homicide
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German wrote several investigative articles on Telles, with several pieces receiving widespread public attention. The reporter focused on Telles’s “oversight of the office” in his reporting for months prior to his death, beginning in May, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
In one article, he accused the public administrator of allegedly having an inappropriate relationship with a staff member. In another, German wrote that Telles posted an angry letter on his website calling out the newspaper and German after losing a reelection bid.
The articles were met with fierce denials from Telles on his website. In June, he posted a statement along with a letter he sent to German, thanking him for the opportunity to speak on the record and stating that false accusations would not deter him from doing his job.
In a tweet from June 25, he described German as a “bully.”
Typical bully. Can’t take a pound of critism after slinging 100 pounds of BS. Up to article #4 now. You’d think he’d have better things to do. ?
— Rob Telles (@RobTellesLV) June 25, 2022
He also accused German of making veiled threats in a tweet from June 17.
Does the @LVRJ know that @JGermanRJ may be doing double duty on their dime? Do they know he basically made a veiled threat to make me take down my site with the truth after I already lost the election? #LasVegas pic.twitter.com/9H2szMAGtV
— Rob Telles (@RobTellesLV) June 17, 2022
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Police have also released updated information relating to a person they believe could be connected to the homicide. Photos and videos of the person and a vehicle were included in a release sent to the Washington Examiner after German was found unresponsive and pronounced dead on Saturday.
In the video, the person is wearing an orange jacket, black pants, black gloves, and a sun hat and carrying a black duffel bag. A vehicle that could be linked to the crime is a red or maroon GMC Yukon Denali.
