LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The former Clark County elected official accused of killing a Las Vegas investigative journalist says police were surveilling him and tracking his cell phone in the weeks before his arrest for murder, documents said.
Las Vegas Metro police arrested Robert Telles, 47, in September 2022 for the stabbing death of Jeff German. Prosecutors accuse Telles of targeting German because of articles he was writing about problems in the county’s public administrator’s office, which Telles ran.
German, 69, was found stabbed to death on Sept. 3, 2022, outside his home in the northwest valley near Tenaya Way and Vegas Drive. Detectives said they found Telles’ DNA under German’s fingernails, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported shortly after Telles’ arrest.
Telles was representing himself in court until recently when defense attorney Robert Draskovich stepped in. In documents filed last week, Draskovich and prosecutors said Metro police were tracking Telles’ cellphone as part of an investigation into a bribery scheme.