German’s previous reporting may have doomed Telles’ re-election campaign in June, spurring the public administrator to publicly lash out at the journalist online. “And then ultimately Telles was also upset-from what we found out later-that there was additional reporting that was pending,” Koren added. But Las Vegas Metro Police Department Captain Dori Koren said Thursday that “Telles was upset about articles that were being written by German as an investigative journalist that exposed potential wrongdoing, and Telles had publicly expressed his issues with that reporting.” I’m just glad everyone is OK.”įumo said that he has been in contact with Telles’ family, and that his wife has yet to speak to her husband as of Friday afternoon but was “devastated and just focusing on their kids.”Īuthorities have not offered an explicit motive for the Sept. “They got him out of the house before I got there, though. I wanted to help Rob,” Fumo said, recalling the strange 22-minute drive. I was like, ‘Of course,’ I wanted to help them. “I don’t know why they called me, but I didn’t think twice. Cops nabbed Telles after a dramatic hour-long standoff during which he barricaded himself in his home and police called Fumo to help coax their man to surrender. The disgraced politician is being held without bond in Clark County Detention Center after he was briefly treated for “self-inflicted wounds” following his Wednesday arrest. Neither his family nor an attorney could be reached for comment. Telles has yet to enter a plea and was set to make his initial court appearance on Tuesday. “I am going to see him tomorrow and figure out what is going on,” criminal defense attorney Ozzie Fumo, who says he was friends with both German and Telles, told The Daily Beast, referring to an upcoming jail-house visit. The macabre slaying-and Telles’ subsequent arrest after authorities found his DNA under German’s fingernails-has rattled journalists, sparked right-wing media fervor, and sent shockwaves throughout the Las Vegas community.īut for some of the people who knew or worked in proximity to the man, wrapping their heads around how a sort of bookkeeper of death might have refashioned himself into a cold-blooded killer was its own odyssey. “How could he be so dumb? How could he think he could get away with this?” Cahill asked. On Wednesday night, Telles was arrested after allegedly disguising himself and fatally stabbing German seven times during an altercation next to the journalist’s garage the previous Friday morning. Which made what came next all the more stunning.
(Telles denied the allegations.)īut even after the two old allies exchanged a mini-war of words on Facebook, Cahill stressed he would not describe Telles-who lost a bid for re-election in the wake of German’s reporting-as a violent man. Then, Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative journalist Jeff German’s articles started coming out in May about Telles allegedly presiding over an atmosphere rife with bullying and favoritism in Cahill’s old workplace. Once Telles took over, Cahill did start to catch wind of trouble-like whispers from employees that Telles was “pretty hostile if he thinks people are pushing back on him.”
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