LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A person faces a terror-related cost after he allegedly poured gasoline on the ground of a Las Vegas on line casino in what police consider concerned home violence.
Jonathan Luna, 30, faces expenses together with making a terrorist menace and home battery, information mentioned.
On Friday, Jan. 31, Las Vegas Metro police obtained a report of a person inside Binion’s Playing Corridor & Lodge pouring gasoline on the on line casino flooring, paperwork mentioned. Witnesses reported that an individual, later recognized as Luna, and a girl left the on line casino and headed towards Fremont Road.
An individual informed police Luna was lately launched from jail on a home violence cost, paperwork mentioned. Data present police arrested Luna six days earlier for home battery. It was not instantly clear what day Luna was launched from custody.
Police later discovered Luna allegedly despatched a video of himself to a different individual “filling up [a] milk jug filled with gasoline” before arriving at Binion’s. According to a witness, Luna “made statements about setting Binion’s Hotel on fire,” police mentioned.
On Fremont Road, Luna allegedly threatened a number of folks with a knife and screwdriver, paperwork mentioned. Police then detained him close to Major Road and Bonanza Street.
Officers then interviewed Luna, who informed them he typically blacks out, paperwork mentioned.
Throughout Luna’s preliminary court docket look on Feb. 1, Las Vegas Justice Courtroom Choose Daniel Westmeyer set bail at $50,000. Luna remained in custody on the Clark County Detention Heart as of Thursday. Ought to he submit bond, Luna can be required to put on an ankle monitor.
A preliminary listening to was scheduled for Feb. 19.
Police arrested Luna in 2023 on a housebreaking cost, noting it was his first offense for that cost, information mentioned. He pleaded responsible to a lesser cost of tried housebreaking of a enterprise and agreed to serve six months in jail. Clark County District Courtroom Choose Monica Trujillo later sentenced Luna to the jail time.
