Las Vegas man identified in fatal 215 north valley crash
Jose Nacario Belardo, 59, died after being injured in a crash on Thursday, July 10, at approximately 7:13 a.m., along the 215 east of the North Pecos Road on-ramp in North Las Vegas, according to NHP.
The preliminary investigation indicates that the driver of a Chrysler sedan was traveling westbound on the 215 in the far right travel lane approaching North Pecos at a high rate of speed. The driver of the Chrysler failed to use due care and reduce speed, which caused the front of the Chrysler to strike the rear of an Infiniti QX80 utility vehicle from behind, NHP said.
Both the Chrysler and the Infiniti traveled in a northwest direction across the 215 westbound travel lanes and into the desert area, north of the 215. The Chrysler came to a stop facing west. The Infiniti overturned and ejected the driver from the vehicle. The Infiniti came to rest facing north in the desert area, just north of 215, according to NHP.
2025 year to date: The Nevada State Police Highway Patrol Southern Command has investigated 37 fatal crashes resulting in 38 fatalities.
Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Rep. Derrick Van Orden of central Wis. helps save the life of a boy in Iowa highway crash
MADISON - Derrick Van Orden retired from the U.S. Navy more than a decade ago, but his training as a combat medic was front of mind Saturday when the U.S. Congressman witnessed a high-speed crash unfold in his rearview mirror. Van Orden, a Republican who represents the 3rd Congressional District, which includes Stevens Point and Wisconsin Rapids, said as he was traveling south with his wife, Sara, on Interstate 35 in south central Iowa, he looked in his side mirror and saw a Dodge Grand Caravan "disintegrate" as it crashed into a semi tractor-trailer that was stopped on the side of the freeway. "Sara said, 'what happened?' And I was looking at that and I said, 'someone just died,'" Van Orden said in an interview. Van Orden said he swung his truck around, parked about 50 feet from the crash, and ran to the wreckage to find a mother and her son in the van. Van Orden is a retired Navy SEAL and has extensive training in providing quick medical treatment in combat situations. Eleven-year-old Sawyer Whitt's injuries were not unlike what Van Orden has witnessed in the military, he said. "His leg was just shredded — his lower leg. His tibia and fibia were exposed … his flesh was just gone," Van Orden said. Whitt's arm was also bleeding from a "huge laceration," Van Orden said. Van Orden said he sprinted to his truck and retrieved two socks to fashion the first tourniquet for the boy to slow his bleeding. Quickly, other motorists stopped to help, and the group used a windshield wiper, a metal rod from a car jack, and seatbelts as splints and tourniquets to keep Whitt from bleeding to death. Van Orden said while he and the team of passersby tended to Whitt and his mother, others stopped traffic. "Then I hear 'we need to do traffic control,' and I turn around, and it is not a cop. They hadn't shown up yet. These are just average Americans," Van Orden said. "They went out there, just regular dudes flagging down traffic, and they went to block off the highway to protect us. It was really amazing." Whitt and his mother, Natasha Lyons, were airlifted from the freeway to hospitals in nearby Des Moines, according to the Iowa State Police crash report. Lyons is suspected of driving while impaired, according to the state police. A spokesman for the Iowa State Police did not respond to questions about the crash. As of Tuesday, Whitt was in stable condition and in "good spirits," according to a UnityPoint Health spokesman. Whitt's parents did not respond to a request for an interview. Van Orden said he visited Whitt in the hospital on Monday and told him the day of the crash was his "alive day" — a term members of the military use to recognize the day they almost died in combat. The account of Van Orden's actions to help save Whitt's life were first published by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday, Aug. 19 — the anniversary of the death of Van Orden's daughter. He said the event will make him think of the meaning of the anniversary differently. "I had a conversation with the dad and I said, you know, Sara and I lost our daughter two years ago and I'm so thankful you don't have to go through that experience." Molly Beck can be reached at This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Rep. Derrick Van Orden helps save the life of boy hurt in Iowa crash Solve the daily Crossword
New York Times
3 hours ago
- New York Times
Social Media Figure Is Killed by Stray Bullet in Road Rage Episode, Police Say
Yarely Ashley Hermosillo, a social media personality whose videos attract thousands of followers, was fatally shot in Arizona last week when the sport utility vehicle in which she was a passenger pulled up next to a man who fired a gun while arguing with another driver, the police said. Ms. Hermosillo, 27, her son, 4, and her mother were in an S.U.V. driven by her partner just before midnight on Friday in Glendale, a city northwest of Phoenix. As they pulled up in the left lane at a light, they came to a stop next to drivers in the center and right lanes who were arguing, the Glendale Police Department said. During the 'verbal altercation,' the driver in the center lane, Jesus Dousten, 33, pulled out a handgun, according to a police affidavit filed in Maryvale Justice Court in Maricopa County. He held the weapon across his body pointing to the left, while looking toward the right at the driver whom he was confronting, the document said. 'You want some of this?' Mr. Dousten yelled, according to the affidavit. Mr. Dousten then fired a single shot that hit Ms. Hermosillo's car, breaking the window of the front passenger seat where she was sitting, and striking her in the face, it said. He 'fired a shot in a random direction,' the police said in an email obtained on Wednesday. 'Tragically, that bullet struck a passenger in an uninvolved vehicle.' 'Why the suspect chose to fire the weapon remains unknown,' the police said. 'It did not appear as if the suspect had intended to strike Yarely with the firearm,' said Officer Moroni Mendez in a telephone interview on Wednesday. 'It did not appear as if he was trying to hit his intended target. It is unknown. He did not say anything to that effect.' Ms. Hermosillo's partner drove her to the hospital, where she was pronounced dead, the police said. Mr. Dousten was arrested on Saturday and charged with second-degree murder, assault and weapons charges, the affidavit said. He was being held in lieu of $1 million bond, the police said. It was not immediately clear on Wednesday whether Mr. Dousten had a lawyer. The Maricopa County Attorney's Office did not immediately reply to an email. Ms. Hermosillo was known as a lifestyle personality with about 300,000 followers tracking her recipes, product recommendations and shopping videos on TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. Her cooking videos, mostly of Mexican-inspired cuisine, were the most popular, each racking up tens of thousands of views. A fund-raiser set up by her family said that they and her friends were devastated. 'Yarely's greatest joy in life was being a mother, and she poured her heart into caring for her little boy,' it said. They did not immediately reply to a message on Wednesday.
Newsweek
3 hours ago
- Newsweek
Israeli Official Arrested in Child Sex Sting Will Fight Charge: Attorney
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A top Israeli government official arrested in an undercover child sex sting in Nevada intends to fight the charge despite having already left the U.S., his Las Vegas-based attorney told Newsweek Wednesday. Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a 38-year-old senior official for Israel's National Cyber Directorate, was arrested on August 6 as part of a multiagency operation targeting alleged child sex predators. Police in Las Vegas announced details of the undercover sting on Friday. Alexandrovich and seven other suspects face a felony charge of luring a child with a computer for sex, Las Vegas police said. The Israeli official will fight the allegation, his attorney confirmed. "Our client is presumed to be innocent and intends to vigorously defend himself against the charge," attorney David Z. Chesnoff wrote in an email to Newsweek. "Mr. Alexandrovich intends to be in court whenever required by the court." Tom Artiom Alexandrovich in an undated official photograph. Tom Artiom Alexandrovich in an undated official photograph. National Cyber Directorate via Israeli Media Chesnoff also denied that his client, who has since returned to Israel, received preferential treatment after posting $10,000 bail with no apparent conditions a day after his arrest and prior to appearing before a judge, according to court records cited the Las Vegas Review-Journal. "He categorically received no special treatment as the bail set was standard and a bond was posted consistent with normal judicial procedures," Chesnoff told Newsweek. "Mr. Alexandrovich will meet all his court obligations consistent with the normal practices in the courts of Clark County, Nevada." U.S. State Department officials acknowledged Monday that the Israeli citizen did not claim diplomatic immunity and had been released by a state judge pending a court date before he left the country. "Any claims that the U.S. government intervened are false," State Department officials wrote on X. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson did not return immediately return inquiries seeking comment Wednesday, but he defended Alexandrovich's bail as "standard" during an interview Tuesday with the Review-Journal. "The standard bail for this charge was $10,000, so anybody, upon being booked on that charge, can post that bail and get released with no conditions, and that's what happened in this case," Wolfson told the newspaper. The other seven other suspects, who did not post bail immediately, appeared before a judge for a probable-cause review, Wolfson added. A law enforcement decoy who pretended to be a 15-year-old girl started talking to an individual with Alexandrovich's phone on the "Pure" dating application, as well as WhatsApp, on August 6, according to an arrest report obtained by the Review-Journal. The conversation then turned "sexual in nature," with the suspect allegedly agreeing to meet the undercover investigator and take her on a date to a Cirque du Soleil show, the arrest report shows. Alexandrovich later arrived in a rideshare at an undisclosed location where the meeting was supposed to occur, police said. Alexandrovich, who said he had worked for the Israeli government for roughly 14 years, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted. After waving his Miranda rights, Alexandrovich told federal agents he thought he was speaking to an 18-year-old woman as he attended a six-day Black Hat USA 2025 cybersecurity conference at the Mandalay Bay that ended on August 5, Las Vegas police said. "Alexandrovich stated he felt the girl 'pushed' him to talk about bringing a condom yet could not remember how many times the girl 'pushed' him," according to the arrest report. Las Vegas police said Friday that the eight arrests had occurred within the past two weeks. Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson holds up an indictment for Duane "Keefe D" Davis during a news conference at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to brief media members on Davis' arrest and... Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson holds up an indictment for Duane "Keefe D" Davis during a news conference at the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department headquarters to brief media members on Davis' arrest and indictment for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur on September 29, 2023 in Las Vegas, Nevada. More"We would like to remind parents to discuss with their children the dangers of engaging with strangers online," police said in a statement. "Parents are encouraged to routinely monitor their children's activity on social media and other online applications to prevent them from becoming victims of a child sex predator. This operation was conducted as part of the ongoing efforts to reduce violent crime and protect children in our community." The top federal prosecutor in Nevada, Sigal Chattah, confirmed in a statement Monday that Wolfson's office will handle the eight cases. "Last week, Tom Artiom Alexandrovich was arrested in a Nevada Internet Crimes Against Children joint operation; and he was booked into the Henderson Detention Center," Chattah said. "This important multi-agency operation targeted child sex predators who preyed upon the most vulnerable members of our communities." Newsweek has also reached out to the Israeli Consulate General in New York for further comment. The arrest of an official in Benjamin Netanyahu's government on charges of soliciting a minor propelled Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand far-right lawmaker from Georgia who has broken with the Trump administration on the war in Gaza and the Jeffrey Epstein case, to speculate on social media that he was being shielded by the Trump administration. "Why did our government release a child sex predator from Israel who works directly under the Prime Minister of Israel?" Greene wrote on X. A status hearing in Alexandrovich's case is scheduled for August 27, court records show. Alexandrovich remains in Israel, according to reports in Israeli media.
