A local official who had been under investigation by a journalist in Las Vegas for months has been detained on suspicion of murder.
Jeff German was stabbed to death outside his house on Friday after an incident, according to authorities. Robert Telles, the public administrator of Clark County in Nevada, was detained on Wednesday.
The body of the 69-year-old Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter was discovered the next morning.
According to the Clark County Coroner and Medical Examiner’s Office, he died from “several sharp force injuries.”
The Las Vegas Review-Journal verified Telles’ detention, saying that Mr German had written pieces about him.
The county district attorney, Steven Wolfson, informed The New York Times that Telles had been arrested.
Telles, whose agency is in charge of overseeing the estates of those who died without a will or family connections, was detained on suspicion of murder, according to Clark County Detention Centre records.
Mr German was well-known in Nevada’s largest city for his decades of reporting on political malfeasance and organised crime.
He’d spent months investigating allegations that Telles had an improper connection with a subordinate and oversaw a hostile workplace, both of which the county official denied.
Telles was defeated in his re-election campaign in June, only weeks after Mr German’s findings were released. He was set to depart the presidency in January.
In a tweet, Las Vegas police reported the arrest of a suspect in Mr German’s murder but did not name him.
