LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Henderson councilwoman had two run-ins with law enforcement – both caught on police-worn body camera – within a couple months of losing the support of the city’s two major police unions due to a prior dust-up with officers that was also caught on video, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned.
In both incidents, Ward 2 councilwoman Monica Larson involved Henderson Police Chief Reggie Rader despite having said, in an email obtained by the 8 News Now Investigators in December 2025, that Henderson’s police department lacks “integrity, professionalism, and morality.” At that time, both Henderson’s police officers and the supervisors’ associations said they would no longer align themselves politically with Larson.
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In January, a motorcycle officer with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department stopped Larson for following other cars too closely, one body camera video appears to show. Larson was on the phone with Henderson’s police chief, Reggie Rader, during the majority of that traffic stop, pleading her case to Rader and, at one point, seeming to ignore the officer to converse with Rader. At the end of the interaction, Larson identified herself as a Henderson City Councilwoman and the officer returned her license to her and she drove off, the video appears to show.
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Last November, an HPD officer appeared to confront Larson, who was standing outside the Inspirada Animal Hospital. The date of the video coincides with an 8 News Now report of a dog found dead inside a trash bag in Insipirada, which is Larson’s political jurisdiction.
The two appear to be discussing on body camera video why Larson is standing outside the Hospital after hours, and have the following exchange after Larson indicates that Rader is on his way to meet her:…