Man arrested after police find human remains in bed of truck

A antheral was arrested aft constabulary recovered quality remains successful the furniture of a stolen motortruck helium utilized to fly from constabulary connected Thursday.

Officers attempted to halt a pickup motortruck adjacent Tropicana Avenue and Duneville Street astir 3:42 p.m. connected Thursday, but the operator fled. The Metropolitan Police Department said successful a connection that its aerial portion followed and saw the operator power trucks.

Police tried to halt the 2nd motortruck and the operator fled again, but was aboriginal located astatine an flat analyzable adjacent the 4200 artifact of Rochelle Avenue, constabulary said. The antheral was identified arsenic 57-year-old Eric Holland, and helium threw things astatine officers and tried to tally distant earlier helium was taken into custody.

Both of the trucks Holland utilized to fly from constabulary had been antecedently reported arsenic stolen, and constabulary said quality remains were recovered successful the furniture of 1 of the trucks. Metro’s homicide portion took implicit the probe and identified Holland arsenic the suspect.

Holland was booked into the Clark County Detention Center, wherever helium is presently being held connected charges of utilizing different person’s ID, car embezzlement of much than $3,500, intent to usage a flase cheque and theft of much than $3,500 from outstanding warrants, and 1 complaint of unfastened execution successful transportation with the quality remains. His adjacent tribunal quality is scheduled for Tuesday morning.

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