Las Vegas Democrat charged with killing reporter files complaint against police

A former Las Vegas Democrat government official who is charged with killing a journalist last year has filed a complaint against police, alleging misconduct, according to local reports.

Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles was charged with murdering Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German in August 2022.

Telles has since filed a complaint against the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD), alleging officers violated policies during a Jan. 27, 2023, incident, according to the Review-Journal.

The 46-year-old city official is charged with open murder in German’s killing and has been detained in the Clark County Detention Center since September.

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LVMPD did not immediately respond to an inquiry from Fox News Digital.

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Telles is representing himself in the murder case and has argued that the incident, including the alleged murder, was a setup, the Review-Journal reports.

Telles was a person of interest during LVMPD’s preliminary investigation because he was apparently disgruntled about an article that German had recently written about allegations of a hostile work environment in Telles’ office. The public administrator had lost his bid for reelection in June after German published his findings, the outlet reported.

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The journalist had also recently submitted a public records request for text messages between Telles and three other county officials, according to the Review-Journal.

Police revealed after his September 2022 arrest, however, that they recovered a cut-up straw hat and cut-up gray sneakers with blood stains from Telles’ home during their investigation into German’s murder.

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The items were cut up “in a manner that was likely an attempt to destroy evidence,” LVMPD homicide Detective Dori Koren said during a press conference at the time.

Police also said they found Telles’ DNA at the crime scene.

“This has been an unusual investigation from the beginning,” then-LVMPD Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said during the press conference. “… Every murder [is] tragic, but the killing of a journalist is particularly troublesome.”