Official's DNA linked to Las Vegas reporter's stabbing, police say

[Jilly_in_VA]

A government official was arrested on the charge of open murder in the stabbing death of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, police said Thursday.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, 45, who German had spent months reporting on, was taken into custody Wednesday, police said. German, 69, was found dead Saturday morning, the county coroner’s office said, and his cause of death was multiple sharp-force injuries.

Telles was a person of interest early in the investigation as authorities considered work-related grievances or conflicts, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Capt. Dori Koren said at a news conference Thursday. He did not disclose a specific motive.

Upon a search of Telles’s home, police recovered a pair of shoes and a straw hat that matched those worn in a previously released photo of the suspect, police said Thursday. Both items were cut, likely in an attempt to destroy evidence, Koren said. He added that Telles’s DNA was a positive match for DNA recovered from the crime scene.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/09/08/las-vegas-journalist-murder-charge/?itid=hp-top-table-main-t-6

I kind of thought from an article yesterday that the cops had their guy. He didn't do much to cover his tracks.

[Rebl2]

1. No he

did not do much to get rid of evidence.