LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A nasty email chain between a Henderson city employee and a deputy police chief reveals a power struggle at the top — and outside — of the chain of command of the police department, shining a light on a rarely-seen force riddled with dysfunction. Those emails ultimately resulted in the scrubbing of both an internal affairs investigation and its related files.
The emails, obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators, detail a request by then-Deputy Chief Jonathan Boucher and Assistant City Manager Lisa Corrado about the validity of Boucher’s initiation of an internal affairs complaint. Boucher alleged that an officer, the head of the police union at the time, lied to the state legislature during testimony in May. Both Boucher and the officer, Shawn Thibeault, retired in 2025.
Thibeault testified with regard to Senate Bill 279 (SB 279) sponsored by Democratic State Senator Julie Pazina. The purpose of the bill, according to testimony, was to tighten loopholes in an already-existing law, NRS 289, better known as the Peace Officers’ Bill of Rights. That statute provides police officers with certain protections related to, among other things, internal affairs investigations…