Police raid elected official’s home in Vegas reporter death

By KEN RITTER
Associated Press

LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Las Vegas-area elected public official has been arrested and identified by police 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 Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by a police SWAT unit 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. Police tweeted shortly before 7 p.m. that the suspect had been taken into custody. Telles had been a focus of German’s reporting about turmoil in the county office that handles property of people who die without a will or family contacts.