**UPDATE** May 1, 2023. The cover-up that started under former Sheriff Joe Lombardo’s tenure continues under Sheriff Kevin McMahill’s reign. Sources at LVMPD say Capt. Kristine Buist is leaving the LVMPD for a high-level police position with the Vancouver PD in Washington state. Sources say that Jeff Clark may be the new commander at the South East Area Command (SEAC) and that Sgt. Cordero could be released from restricted duty and put back to full duty and that the entire incident will be whitewashed. theDOUG POPPA PODCAST has been the only media outlet reporting on this cover-up. Apparently, the death of a 74-year-old Hispanic woman who was murdered as police officers heard her screams and were told to stand down and wait for SWAT, is not newsworthy to the local media.
**UPDATE** January 15, 2023. I have recently submitted public records requests to the LVMPD for copies of the Communications Center audio recordings of this incident and for all reports completed by officers and supervisors who were at the scene. I was told that nothing will be released including body camera video, as it is an open murder investigation. Sources said officers who were interviewed as part of the internal investigation were told not to discuss the incident with anyone. I was told that sergeants at various area commands throughout the Las Vegas Valley have instructed officers at briefings that when they hear screams on similar calls, they need to take action. [Amazing police officers have to be told that.] Sources said Sgt. Cordero is still on desk duty.
EXCLUSIVE BREAKING NEWS. Episode 131. December 11, 2022. According to police sources, Las Vegas Metro police officers were ordered to stand down by their sergeant and wait for SWAT, while they heard the screams of a woman who was being stabbed to death (reportedly 68 times) in her southeast Las Vegas apartment on September 14, 2022. Contact: dougpoppapodcast@gmail.com.
Editor’s Note: Poppa is an independent investigative journalist. He has authored more than 160 articles on the 2017 Las Vegas Massacre that were published by the Baltimore Post-Examiner. He is a former NYPD Auxiliary Police Officer, U.S. Army Military Police veteran, and former law enforcement officer. In 1986, he was the LCSO Criminal Investigator of the Year. He served 18 years in the Las Vegas hotel-casino industry as an investigator and Director of Security and Surveillance and worked for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Support his work at: Paypal.me/dougpoppa.
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Doug authored over 135 articles on the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Massacre, more than any other single journalist in the country. He investigates stories on corruption, law enforcement and crime. Doug is a US Army Military Police Veteran, former police officer, deputy sheriff and criminal investigator. Doug spent 20 years in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and then as Director of Security and Surveillance. He also spent a short time with the US Dept. of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration. In 1986 Doug was awarded Criminal Investigator of the Year by the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office in Virginia for his undercover work in narcotics enforcement. In 1992 and 1993 Doug testified in court that a sheriff’s office official and the county prosecutor withheld exculpatory evidence during the 1988 trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of his wife. Doug’s testimony led to a judge’s decision to order the release of the man from prison in 1992 and awarded him a new trial, in which he was later acquitted. As a result of Doug breaking the police “blue wall of silence,” he was fired by the county sheriff. His story was featured on Inside Edition, Current Affair and CBS News’ “Street Stories with Ed Bradley”. In 1992 after losing his job, at the request of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Doug infiltrated a group of men who were plotting the kidnapping of a Dupont fortune heir and his wife. Doug has been a guest on national television and radio programs speaking on the stories he now writes as an investigative journalist.
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