Vegas Cops Yank Ceiling Hider From Empty Walgreens After Unhoused People Robbed

An early-morning robbery inside a vacant Walgreens on Boulder Highway ended with Las Vegas police pulling a suspect from the store’s ceiling and several unhoused people found bound and injured on Tuesday, according to officers. The strange scene drew SWAT, crisis negotiators and multiple units to the east valley and briefly shut down lanes at Boulder Highway and Flamingo while the building was cleared, as reported by KTNV.

Standoff in east Las Vegas

Officers were called just after 3 a.m. to the 4800 block of Boulder Highway near Flamingo following reports that people staying inside the closed Walgreens had been robbed, according to KTNV. SWAT officers and crisis negotiators responded as police searched the property. Metro later said SWAT cleared the…..

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