Las Vegas Weekly

Clark County firefighter John Brush has reportedly confessed to calling in false alarms while off duty so he could enter the empty fire station and steal his colleagues’ food money to go gambling. Length of the spree? Six weeks. Grand total stolen over that time? Eight-hundred bucks. Pulling firefighters from legitimate calls and potentially endangering countless lives? Priceless.

Las Vegas Constable John Bonaventura is in hot water with Clark County Commissioners over a leaked reality TV pilot that shows his officers swearing and yelling. In his defense, Bonaventura says no laws were broken, but he’s certainly guilty of bad judgment, allowing this video to see the light of day. In an era of increased public scrutiny over law enforcement, showing anything depicting gun-toting officers displaying aggressive behavior is just a bad, bad, bad idea.

In what is no doubt an intensely embarrassing episode for Nevada, the family of a man who died here in 2005 has accepted a $350,000 settlement over the disappearance of his internal organs after an autopsy. While we grant that mistakes sometimes happen in any bureaucracy, we’d be remiss if we didn’t wonder whatever became of those organs. After all, it has been six years, and you can’t exactly lose that kinda stuff behind a filing cabinet ... or can you?