O le DNA a le faipule o Nevada na maua i le nofoaga o le fasioti tagata a le tusitala na faʻaalia le taufaaleaga

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Las Vegas police found the DNA of embattled Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles at the murder scene of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, who covered turmoil in Telles’ office, police said Thursday, one day after the politician was arrested and charged with murder.

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Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Captain Dori Koren said at a news conference Thursday that authorities recovered shoes from Telles’ home with a blood smear, and found a straw hat that matched the description of one worn by the suspect.

Police did not specify exactly where Telles’ DNA was found at the crime scene.

Telles is scheduled to make an initial court appearance at 1:30 p.m. Pacific time Thursday.

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“Every murder is tragic, but the killing of a journalist is particularly troublesome,” Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news conference Thursday.

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German’s body was discovered outside of his home Saturday morning, after police said he was stabbed to death in an altercation the day before. Telles was arrested Wednesday night and booked on a murder charge following a raid at his home, and was wheeled out of his house on a stretcher and placed into an ambulance due to an apparent self-inflicted injury, according to the Los Angeles Times. He did not speak to reporters gathered at his home Wednesday who spotted him wearing a hazmat suit for unknown reasons. A major breakthrough in the investigation came when an SUV was spotted in Telles’ driveway matching the description of a vehicle believed to be tied to the murder. German, 69, spent 40 years as a reporter and was working an investigative beat prior to his death. In May, he published a tala documenting several scandals in Telles’ office, including bullying and an “inappropriate relationship” Telles had with a staffer. Telles’ top deputy defeated him in June’s Democratic sili for county public administrator, just weeks after the story broke.

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