Las Vegas Strip Shooter Apprehended

Written by :

Gilbert Horowitz

Published on :

3 March, 2013

A man accused of fatally shooting rapper Kenneth Wayne Cherry Jr., 27, outside the Aria Hotel on the Vegas Strip last month was arrested this past Thursday.

“We can confirm that the LAPD-FBI task force arrested a fugitive from Las Vegas wanted by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department," Los Angeles police spokesman Lieutenant Andy Neiman said.

26-year-old Ammar Harris is accused of shooting Cherry as he sat in the driver’s seat of his Maserati. That car then careened into a taxi cab, killing the driver and a passenger.

A nationwide manhunt had been underway. Harris was arrested in Los Angeles.

- Gilbert Horowitz, Gambling911.com

Crime

Las Vegas

Rapper Chocolate MC, Las Vegas Casino Sued Over Alleged Rape of Teen

Chocolate MC is already incarcerated separately regarding an attempted murder-for-hire plot in Florida.

South Florida Casino Carjacking Suspect Captured One Month Later

Julio Salermo, 33, was charged with robbery/carjacking on Tuesday, one month after the incident occurred at the Miccosukee Casino & Resort outside of Miami.

Game Fixer, Jalen Smith Sentenced to Six Year Prison Term

(AP) PHILADELPHIA -- The man called the "fixer" of a scheme to rig college basketball games will spend six years in federal prison.

Las Vegas Casino Flamingo Theft Trial Kicks Off With Witness Testimony

The trial for a Canadian tourist accused of stealing and torturing a flamingo from a casino pool began on Wednesday with a security guard on his smoke break during a graveyard shift testifying about a voice crackled over the radio, “someone took a flamingo.”