Police seek tips in off-road vehicle thefts in northwest Las Vegas

Las Vegas constabulary request the public’s assistance successful solving the theft of immoderate unsocial inferior terrain vehicles from a location successful the northwest Las Vegas Valley.

Thieves stole the RZR-RS1 and Can Am UTVs from the beforehand driveway of Patrick Jacobson’s location adjacent Gowan Road and Grand Canyon Drive successful the early-morning hours of Sept. 14. The distinctive UTVs are estimated to beryllium worthy astir $50,000, and constabulary accidental they would beryllium easy recognizable for tipsters.

“Right present they (detectives) are retired of leads,” said Las Vegas constabulary spokesperson Aden OCampoGomez. “They are moving to effort and get much videos, and astatine this constituent we are trying to find the vehicles truthful we tin bash much travel up.”

Jacobson said the thieves broke into his truck, recovered the keys to the UTVs and seemingly drove them retired of the residential neighborhood. The vehicles, commonly referred to arsenic side-by sides, were successful beforehand of his location due to the fact that a household subordinate had conscionable precocious borrowed the trailer they are usually perched on.

“They are off-road vehicles, 4 wheels, beauteous precocious horsepower and precocious show fundamentally for going off-road,” Jacobson said, adding “As acold arsenic I cognize they took the keys from the truck, started them up and drove them off.”

The Can Am is simply a yellowish and achromatic two-seater with a achromatic apical and broadside mirrors. The RS1 is simply a achromatic and achromatic single-seater.

Jacobson said helium was told by a detective that “it is simply a occupation community-wide arsenic acold arsenic the breaking into peoples’ vehicles.”

Anyone with accusation connected the determination of the UTVs, oregon who committed the crime, tin telephone the constabulary Northwest Area Command astatine 702-828-3426 oregon email accusation to nwac@lvmpd.com.

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