Former elected official found guilty of murdering Las Vegas veteran reporter

The brutal stabbing death of Jeff German, one of the most well-known journalists in the city, horrified Las Vegas two years ago.

When police detained a county official who was elected, the shock was intensified. Robert Telles, the former official, has now been convicted guilty of first-degree murder by a jury.

Telles held the job of Clark County Public Administator at the time, which manages the distribution and transfer of a deceased person’s assets when there is no surviving family member or legal executor.

However, he was defeated in the Democratic primary for reelection in June 2022 as a result of negative stories about him published in the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

According to the publications, he fostered a “hostile” work atmosphere and had a love involvement with a subordinate.

Prosecutors claim that because German, the seasoned investigative reporter responsible for those reports, kept asking Telles’ office for public records even after losing his primary election, Telles decided to assassinate German.

Deputy District Attorney Christopher Hamner stated in court, “He murdered him because Jeff’s writing destroyed his career, his reputation, it threatened probably his marriage, and it exposed things that even he admitted that he didn’t want the public to know.” “And he did it because Jeff wasn’t done writing.”

German was stabbed to death outside his Las Vegas home on Sept. 2, 2022. Shortly before, surveillance video captured images of a person wearing an orange work shirt or vest and large straw hat walking toward German’s house, and police later found a cut-up straw hat in Telles’ home. .NPR have it details

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