A US elected public official has been arrested and identified by police as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of a veteran newspaper reporter whose investigations of the official’s work preceded his electoral loss in June.Clark County Public Administrator Robert “Rob” Telles, a Democrat, was taken into custody at his home by a police SWAT unit hours after investigators served a search warrant and confiscated vehicles in the criminal probe of the killing of Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German, Sheriff Joe Lombardo told the newspaper.Telles, 45, had been a focus of German’s reporting about turmoil including complaints of administrative bullying, favouritism and Telles’ relationship with a subordinate staffer in the county office that handles property of people who die without a will or family contacts.
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