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Federal Leadership And Gun Crime Enforcement In Las Vegas – Part 1

By Tom O’Connell / May 1, 2019

Leadership and Morale As I sat in retirement, complacently musing about nothing in particular, something on the TV caught my attention: a live press conference regarding the federal criminal case against former Nevada Senate Majority Leader Kelvin Atkinson. Mr. Atkison had just pled guilty to federal wire fraud and admitted misusing nearly $250,000 in campaign funds. […]

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Update on Brian Wright

By Tom O’Connell / April 23, 2019

This fine fellow Wright, he of the Tupac t-shirt, was the subject of a recent entry herein. Therefore, no reason to belabor the procedural history – or histrionics – of his case. Suffice to say, his crimes, and antics, recently earned him a 27 year sentence in a federal prison tbd (to be designated –

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Justice Served In Las Vegas: Brian Wright, The U.S. Attorney And The UFC

By Tom O’Connell / January 17, 2019

Justice Delayed – Still Sweet In early 2016, a convicted felon named Brian Wright was facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison for masterminding a string of armed robberies which netted $1.1 million worth of jewelry. Then, suddenly, the April 25 trial date for Wright and co-defendant Danielle Perreira was vacated. U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon ripped into the federal prosecutors handling the case for discovery

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Lost Cause: Cary Sayegh, Part I

By Tom O’Connell / November 9, 2018

Where is Cary Sayegh? A gap toothed little boy’s smiling face, frozen in time, confronted the reader’s of the Las Vegas Review Journal several months ago. The subject of the photograph was 6 year old Cary Daniel Sayegh. Circa 1978. The headline, above the fold, read….”The Disappearance That Still Haunts” The subtitle, in bold,

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Cary Sayegh – A Long Missing Child, Letter Bombs, and Racial Murders

By Tom O’Connell / November 7, 2018

What has drawn the Pissed Off Prosecutor out of hibernation and back to business? Well, it has been quite a nostalgic week for me, and not in a pleasant way. THE CARY SAYEGH DISAPPEARANCE First, I got a call from a local reporter about what was possibly the most frustrating case of my career. A

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Canelo, Conor, and the Commission

By Tom O’Connell / April 20, 2018

CANELO I was about ready to congratulate the Nevada Athletic Commission for suspending Saul “Canelo” Alvarez as a result of two positive PED (performance enhancing drugs) tests. But hold on. Bear in mind that this is a Commission with a long history of doing the wrong thing – I’ve addressed that history here several times.

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