On February 22, 2008, a check cashing business on south Buffalo was the victim of a robbery. The suspect is believed to be the same suspect that robbed another check cashing business on February 6, 2008.

The suspect entered, showed the worker a gun and demanded money. The suspect then left the business on foot.

Witnesses say the suspect has a prominent goatee and walks with a noticeable limp.

The LVMPD Robbery Section detectives are asking the public’s assistance in identifying this suspect. If you have any information, please call Robbery at (702) 828-3591 or to remain anonymous, call Crime Stoppers at (702) 828-5555.

Police are investigating the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy who died after he was shot in the stomach.

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Thousands of valley residents are turned into victims each year after their prized possessions are stolen during a home or car burglary. What’s worse is that the suspects behind the crimes are often getting away with it.

Metro says it is doing what it can with the resources available, but victims say it is not enough. Burglary is one of the most common crimes in the valley.

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A couple last seen Jan. 26 were found Wednesday by a county road worker near a canyon in southwestern Utah.

Thomas and Tamitha Garner were with their truck about 60 miles west of Cedar City by a county worker who was plowing the road, Iron County Sheriff Mark Gower told The Salt Lake Tribune.

The Kearns couple had gone on a weekend trip to photograph wild horses on Jan. 24. They were last seen two days later in Nevada. Search and rescue crews had been searching a vast area for any sign of the couple.

Gower says they were stranded, but stayed with their vehicle and survived the ordeal.

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Charles Free, a fugitive that was on the run for more than 30 years, appeared for the first time in a Las Vegas courtroom Monday morning.

Conrad Claus, his attorney, asked the judge for 24 hours to talk to with his client and the fugitive hearing on extradition was rescheduled for Tuesday.

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Police still have no leads in the search for Tamitha and Thomas Garner. The northern Utah couple was last seen leaving Panaca, Nevada on Saturday. Police are still treating this as a missing persons case.

The pair were exploring the area in search of wild horses.

Members of the Nevada, Utah and Colorado Civil Air Patrol searched the area around S.R. 319 on Thursday. Authorities employed several ground searchers, 3 Civil Air Patrol planes and a Nevada Air National Guard helicopter.

On a tip, authorities searched an area called two kilns, located north of S.R. 319 about 10 miles west of the Utah/Nevada border.

They found no sign of the couple.

The Garners were last seen driving a grey, 1999 Dodge Dakota truck with Utah plate, #793URF. The truck has a scorpion sticker in the back window. They may have a chocolate colored dog with them.

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Some significant developments in Reno in the investigation of the suspected kidnapping of Brianna Denison.

Policy say DNA evidence has now linked her case to two other attacks late last year on women in the same neighborhood near the campus of the University of Nevada, Reno.

In addition, they say they’re investigating another 2007 case that could be related. That one involves the alleged rape of a woman who came forward for the first time yesterday to say she was assaulted at gunpoint in October in a parking garage just south of the Lawlor Events Center.

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The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a missing couple from Utah.

Thomas and Tamitha Garner were last seen in the Panaca area on Saturday. The Garners were last seen on surveillance video heading toward Utah on SR-319.

Police say they are presumed missing in the area east of Panaca on the Utah/Nevada border. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, the Civil Air Patrol and the Nevada Air National Guard began searching the area on Tuesday.

Weather conditions are hampering the ground search efforts due to snow, ice, terrain and frigid night time temperatures. Lincoln County Sheriff Kerry Lee says the search will continue until further notice.

The pair were in a grey, 1999 Dodge Dakota truck with Utah plates 793 URF. The truck has a scorpion sticker in the back window. They also had their chocolate colored dog.

Police do not suspect foul play but are asking anyone who has seen the Garners to call the Lincoln County Sheriffs Office at 775-962-5151.

Police are looking for a pair of suspects involved in a home burglary on November 21, 2007. The home is in the northwest part of Las Vegas.

Police say the duo forced their way into the home and stole several items of jewelry.

The house had a security camera aimed at the front door. On the video you see the male suspect walk up to the door and knock several times. Then a female suspect approaches and knocks.

Both the male and female are seen on camera jumping the side wall. They got inside the house through a back door.

A third suspect, not seen on camera, is believed to be driving the getaway car.

Anyone with information is asked to call CrimeStoppers at 385-5555 or LVMPD Property Crimes Section at 828-3573.

With no suspects and little evidence, police asked the public for patience as they investigate the suspected kidnapping of a young Reno woman and appealed to friends and neighbors again Friday to offer up even the most “inconsequential” information they may have about her mysterious disappearance six days ago.

Crime lab technicians have yet to determine whether a stain on a pillow at the suspected crime scene is the blood of Brianna Denison, Reno police spokesman Steve Frady said Friday.

The 19-year-old college student hasn’t been seen since about 4 a.m. on Sunday when she went to sleep on a couch at the home of a friend a few blocks from the University of Nevada, Reno, campus, about a half-mile from the downtown casino district.

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