With few leads and little evidence, frustration is mounting in the search for Brianna Denison four days after the 19-year-old college student mysteriously vanished from Reno.
Police questioned a man who gave a ride home to Denison’s friend the night Denison disappeared from the home near the UNR campus.
Police questioned a man about a missing 19-year-old college student but said he is not a suspect in her disappearance.
The man was interviewed because he had given a ride home to Brianna Denison’s friend the night Denison mysteriously vanished, police said.
“We have spoken with the person who was driving the Suburban that we were looking for originally and he is not involved in the case,” Ron Holladay, a Reno police commander, said Wednesday in an interview with CBS’ “Early Show.”
Denison was last seen at 4 a.m. Sunday. Police said she was sleeping on a couch near an unlocked glass door after a night of partying. When her friends awoke later that morning, she was gone — but her clothes, purse and cell phone were left behind.
Police are looking for a woman who attempted to rob a bank on Blue Diamond and Valley View.
On January 18th, police say a white female entered the bank and stood in the merchant line.
When she approached a teller, she handed over a blue bag that contained a note saying, “robbery, don’t be a hero, start with a stack of 100’s and a stack of 20’s, no funny money“.
The woman appeared to get scared as an armed security guard entered the bank and she hurriedly left without any money.
She was seen leaving into a black BMW with a commemorative plate.
Police ask you to call Robbery at (702) 828-3591 or Crime Stoppers at
(702) 385-5555.
A sexual assault suspect has been caught and now police are looking for potential victims.
Twenty-six-year-old Edward Adams has been arrested and charged with first degree kidnapping, sexual assault of a victim under 14 and battery and lewdness.
Police are not saying why they began investigating Adams but they say he may have other victims. Adams lived on west Sahara and police say he frequented the Buffalo and Alta area.
Anyone with information about Edward Adams is asked to call Crimestoppers 385-5555.
The FBI has joined the effort to find a college student believed to have been kidnapped from Reno.
19-year-old Brianna Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday, when she fell asleep on her friend’s couch after a night of partying.
Police say drops of blood were found where she was sleeping and the door to the home was unlocked.
Denison was last seen around 4 a.m. Sunday. A family member says Denison had been out with friends, and went to a friend’s house to sleep on the sofa. A few hours later, Brianna had vanished.
A Cheyenne High School student was arrested after a shooting at a Friday night basketball game.
According to police, the student attempted to shoot another student outside the gym. The student was not hit by the gunfire.
There were two school police officers at the game and they took the 16-year-old suspect into custody.
A local escrow officer was arrested after Metro Fraud investigators say she pocketed more than $500,000 in escrow funds. Metro says this latest case is just the tip of the iceberg in what they believe will be a deluge of mortgage fraud cases in the weeks and months ahead.
Metro say this is yet another ripple effect of Nevada’s worsening foreclosure crisis.
During a news conference Wednesday afternoon, Metro Fraud investigators said they are starting to see a significant increase in the number of victims who have been ripped off in foreclosure scams.
Fast acting police work has at least one person in custody, along with evidence from a coin truck robbery yesterday morning.
“This is part of our commitment to the community that we would jump on top of these robberies and we would do it quick. Again, we got some information, we didn’t sit on it for 2 days and this is where we are at,” said Metro Robbery Lt. Clint Nichols.
Update
The boys have been located. They are safe and with their families.
Las Vegas police are asking public help to find a man who they say grabbed a 15-year-old girl on her way to high school last week.
The girl got away from the man after police say he grabbed her from behind and rubbed her leg about 7 a.m. Thursday near Buffalo and Grand Teton drives. The girl ran to Arbor View High School for help.
The man is described as white, in his late 20s, about 180 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
Police think he might have driven a small red vehicle.
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