Vegas visitors beware

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The sidewalk in front of the Flamingo (3550 Las Vegas Blvd S - O'Shea's to Margaritaville), listing of formal reports written up by the Las Vegas Metropolitain Police Dept in the past 60 days for some selected types of crimes, from

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1 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071129 01:48:36 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
2 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071129 23:58:52 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
3 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071130 02:53:33 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
4 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071201 13:54:21 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
5 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071202 05:59:42 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
6 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071206 09:38:16 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
7 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071208 22:36:32 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
8 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071210 05:32:00 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
9 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071210 11:17:22 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
10 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071212 07:12:53 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
11 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071212 09:09:30 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
12 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071212 22:54:30 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
13 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071213 14:30:51 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
14 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071214 06:14:58 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
15 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071214 21:24:05 E FLAMINGO RD&S LAS VEGAS BLVD
16 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071214 23:12:19 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
17 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071214 23:27:44 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
18 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071215 03:05:09 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
19 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071215 04:50:11 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
20 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071219 07:23:45 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
21 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071219 16:57:51 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
22 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071219 20:56:03 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
23 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071219 21:36:00 E FLAMINGO RD&S LAS VEGAS BLVD
24 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071220 04:26:20 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
25 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071221 00:59:59 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
26 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071221 02:39:13 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
27 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071224 10:35:24 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
28 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071225 04:01:14 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
29 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071228 01:35:12 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
30 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071230 17:35:14 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
31 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071230 22:14:43 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
32 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071231 03:02:50 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
33 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071231 04:27:29 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
34 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 00:47:26 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
35 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 01:41:31 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
36 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 03:02:05 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
37 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 05:17:53 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
38 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 06:52:42 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
39 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080103 22:52:50 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
40 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080106 10:15:24 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD

# Crime Type Date Time 100 Block
41 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080107 00:30:11 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
42 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080109 05:41:59 E FLAMINGO RD&S LAS VEGAS BLVD
43 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080112 01:29:17 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
44 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080112 05:56:23 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
45 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080112 07:10:09 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
46 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080113 01:13:20 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
47 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080116 23:56:06 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
48 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080118 23:09:40 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
49 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080120 06:02:43 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
50 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080120 23:23:14 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
51 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080124 03:43:12 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
52 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080126 04:41:01 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
53 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080126 08:15:33 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
54 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/A GUN 20071209 01:10:26 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
55 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/OTHER DEADLY 20071202 17:02:54 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
56 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/OTHER DEADLY 20071216 01:16:01 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
57 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/OTHER DEADLY 20071227 21:11:09 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
58 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/OTHER DEADLY 20071229 03:52:44 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
59 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/OTHER DEADLY 20080101 02:13:40 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
60 FIGHT 20071209 01:22:40 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
61 FIGHT 20071210 04:28:46 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
62 FIGHT 20071211 06:31:37 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
63 FIGHT 20071215 11:22:20 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
64 FIGHT 20071216 01:57:28 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
65 FIGHT 20071216 03:25:52 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
66 FIGHT 20071216 06:49:15 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
67 FIGHT 20071227 23:30:33 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
68 FIGHT 20071229 00:26:21 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
69 FIGHT 20071230 03:25:52 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
70 FIGHT 20080101 03:35:41 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
71 FIGHT 20080101 23:14:39 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
72 FIGHT 20080124 23:41:32 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
73 FIGHT 20080125 18:04:53 E FLAMINGO RD&S LAS VEGAS BLVD
74 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20071215 03:33:39 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
75 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20071219 04:07:45 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
76 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080101 15:09:22 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
77 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080101 15:10:59 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
78 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080111 06:03:34 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
79 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080113 00:40:21 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
80 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080118 01:14:42 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD

# Crime Type Date Time 100 Block
81 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080118 17:42:49 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
82 LARCENY FROM PERSON (NON ROBBE 20080123 18:42:23 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
83 NARCOTICS 20071204 18:46:54 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
84 NARCOTICS 20071207 00:24:28 3400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
85 NARCOTICS 20080115 01:33:26 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
86 ROBBERY 20071204 06:40:56 3600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
87 ROBBERY 20071216 00:31:04 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
88 ROBBERY 20071216 04:00:16 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
89 ROBBERY 20071224 05:41:17 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
90 ROBBERY 20080102 02:26:30 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
91 ROBBERY 20080105 04:47:27 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
92 ROBBERY 20080120 02:03:45 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
93 ROBBERY 20080120 02:05:38 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD
94 ROBBERY 20080125 05:00:19 3500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S LAS VEGAS BLVD

Of course, this will be only a very small fraction of actual robberies & assaults & suchlike which actually occurred there, since most never get written up as reports by Metro PD and therefore do not get into their database.

In comparison to those three pages, the same time period within a few blocks of the El Cortez (600 Fremont St) produces a half page list of 19 incidents in 60 days:

1 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071213 20:23:05 400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
2 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071223 20:29:59 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
3 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20071224 17:18:19 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
4 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 01:05:09 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
5 ASSAULT/BATTERY 20080101 03:54:39 500 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
6 ASSAULT/BATTERY W/A GUN 20080121 14:00:40 400 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
7 FIGHT 20071205 04:50:04 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
8 FIGHT 20071222 01:23:59 N 7TH ST&FREMONT ST
9 FIGHT 20080102 17:36:44 700 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
10 FIGHT 20080119 01:24:18 FREMONT ST&N LAS VEGAS BLVD
11 FIGHT 20080120 18:26:24 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
12 FIGHT 20080122 20:08:21 600 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
13 NARCOTICS 20071129 17:18:25 6TH/FREMONT
14 NARCOTICS 20071205 18:12:59 7TH/FREMONT
15 NARCOTICS 20080103 19:24:43 100 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S 6TH ST
16 NARCOTICS 20080109 20:32:27 N 6TH ST&FREMONT ST
17 ROBBERY 20071217 11:06:42 100 HUNDRED BLOCK OF S 6TH ST
18 ROBBERY 20080108 02:07:12 700 HUNDRED BLOCK OF FREMONT ST
19 ROBBERY 20080120 20:00:22 S 6TH ST&CARSON AVE

 

[Stuck_At_Work]

I've heard that gang activity has increased rapidly in Vegas.... and has actually affected tourists on the strip.

 

[Brak]

Not one mention of people missing kidneys.

 

[unpaintedhuffhines]

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[Napoleon]

I blame MTV.

 

[Tex Pete]

I have heard that it's MS-13, and they have come in from southern CA for the easy marks in Vegas.

The last few times I've been out there, I have seen many more thug-types driving up and down the Strip. Haven't noticed tons of them on the sidewalks, though. Maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

 

[BattleshipTexas]

That will kill a tourism industry. I am surprised the Vegas police aren't all over this.

 

[si se puede]

I'd venture that there's way more foot traffic around the Trop than there is around El Cortez on any given day. Not to say I'm not a little put off by the high number of incidents, but I don't know how much higher the odds are of being a victim of street crime on the Strip than on Fremont.

 

[HenryGandorf]

wait, people walk in vegas?

 

[l00p]

Ah yes, Mara Salvatrucha. If my cousins were not already locked up I would assume they would be there if they got tired of LA. Rough stuff though. They are fearless and ruthless. Things will get much worse with this one before long. They are popping up even in the midwest. Even other gangs are amazed at their brazen lack of rules or respect. And that says a lot.

A shame it is going on there. They never should have pushed the mob out of power, obvious power, in Vegas. Frank would not put up with this.

For those of you new to this gang there is a link below. But this paragraph implicates all of us Horn fans as members. Who'd a thunk it, G's?

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Members of MS-13, like members of most modern American gangs, utilize a system of hand signs for purposes of identification and communication. One of the most commonly displayed is the "devil's head" (formed by extending the first and forth fingers of the hand while tucking in the middle and ring fingers with the thumb), which forms an M when displayed upside down. This hand sign is similar to the same symbol commonly seen displayed by heavy metal musicians and their fans, and it is alleged that the founders of MS-13 copied the hand sign after having seen it at concerts.

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