OFF THE WIRE
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Boulder City Municipal Court Judge Victor L. Miller ruled this morning that
the arrest and subsequent actions of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police
Department were “malicious” when Vegas Metro officers arrested a Mongol named
George Olivo a year ago during the club’s national run.
Olivo was accused last June 24th of Obstructing a Public Officer and of being
a Pedestrian Under the Influence On a Highway. Boulder City Attorney David Olsen
filed those charges against Olivo after Vegas Metro told him the charges were
not contrived and that there was dash cam video to prove it. Olsen dismissed the
charges against Olivo when Vegas Metro couldn’t supply the video. This morning
the judge ruled that Vegas Metro owes Olivo $571 for his trouble in fighting the
case. Judge Miller also ruled that Boulder City did not act maliciously.
Runaround
Olivo was represented by Las Vegas attorney Stephen “Bowtie” Stubbs (with
family in photo above). The bogus arrest complaint will now be included in a
federal civil rights suit Stubbs filed on behalf of the Southern Nevada
Coalition of Clubs last year. The lawsuit cites multiple instances of blatantly
illegal harassment of motorcyclists in southern Nevada.
Vegas Metro and its lawyers behaved stupidly and unfairly from the moment
they decided to punish Olivo for being a Mongol in Boulder City. Miller
subpoenaed the video of the arrest last September and again last November. Las
Vegas police said they could not produce the video without an “event number.”
The department then refused to supply the event number until Stubbs filed a
Motion to Compel the department to produce the number.
Las Vegas police officials then simultaneously denied the existence of the
video to Stubbs and assured the Boulder City Attorney’s Office that there was
video. If the video ever surfaces it will prove that Olivo was both cooperative
and sober.
Stubbs Speaks
In a motion filed yesterday Stubbs wrote, “Every act made by LVMPD in this
case is evidence of malice, including, but not limited to: arresting Defendant
under bogus charges, encouraging Attorney Olsen to file charges with a false
promise of providing additional video evidence, ignoring the first round of
subpoenas and forcing Defendant to issue further subpoenas, ignoring subsequent
subpoenas, obstructing the defense by purporting not to know their own event
number for the incident and forcing Defendant to get a court order, lying to
defense counsel about the existence of video evidence, further lying to Defense
counsel in a sworn affidavit denying the existence of video evidence, and
ignoring a court order to provide the video evidence (only after Defendant
provided conclusive evidence that video evidence did, in fact, exist).
“If LVMPD was honest from the start, Defendant would have not been arrested,
and there would not have been a criminal case. Even if Defendant was arrested by
mistake, if LVMPD was honest from the start, the charges never would have been
filed and there would not have been any costs to be reimbursed….”
