LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — DNA from a small cigar led Metro police to arrest a person for allegedly robbing one other man and making an attempt to kill him with a damaged bottle, paperwork mentioned.
Manuel Lewis III, 35, faces fees together with tried homicide and kidnapping, information mentioned.
In February, Metro cops responded to a name for an individual who mentioned he was robbed, paperwork mentioned. The 54-year-old man, who was bleeding, mentioned he met one other man, later recognized as Lewis, on Fremont Road.
Lewis drove the person to an alley, the place the sufferer anticipated to purchase marijuana, police mentioned.
“Once they were in the alley, the victim began to feel uncomfortable,” police wrote in paperwork. “The suspect then began to attack him, punching him multiple times, demanding his wallet, and stating that he was going to kill the victim.”
Lewis then allegedly broke a beer bottle over the sufferer’s head, stabbing him with it, police mentioned.
A witness informed police he noticed Lewis maintain the sufferer all the way down to the bottom, saying, “Give it up” and “I’ll kill you,” paperwork mentioned.
Lewis then took the sufferer’s telephone and $3,000 from his checking account, in accordance with police.
On the stabbing scene, police situated an unlit cigarillo with a mouthpiece. Crime scene analysts swabbed the mouthpiece for DNA and entered it into the nationwide DNA crime database.
In March, Metro’s forensic laboratory obtained a success that the pattern matched Lewis. Video from a previous incident involving police of Lewis additionally matched video surveillance from the theft, police mentioned.
That month, police stopped Lewis and took him into custody to take a DNA pattern from him. Throughout a second site visitors cease that very same month, police ticketed Manuel for driving with a revoked license, information mentioned.
On April 25, police arrested Lewis inside a on line casino. With him had been two cigarillos “identical” to the one discovered on the crime scene, police mentioned.
Throughout an interview with police, Lewis denied any involvement.
In courtroom on April 26, Las Vegas Justice Court docket Choose Daniel Westmeyer declined to set bail, noting Lewis was out of custody on one other felony cost.
A month earlier than his arrest, Lewis was in courtroom to plead responsible to a cost of conspiracy to own a credit score or debit card with no cardholder’s consent, paperwork mentioned. Clark County District Court docket Choose Danielle Pieper sentenced him to 22 days in jail with credit score for time served.
In 2019, Lewis pleaded responsible to a cost of theft with using a lethal weapon, information mentioned. As a part of a plea settlement, a choose sentenced him to 3-8 years in jail. The Nevada Parole Board granted him parole in 2023.
Lewis remained in custody on Tuesday.
