The Las Vegas Sun has a piece in their newspaper today about Nye County, Tonopah and Pahrump and how people living in Nye County are accustomed to negative publicity.
Joe Schoenmann wrote it. The article was apparently motivated by the recent arrest of Nye County District Attorney Bob Beckett. It portrays residents of Nye County as more or less shrugging the matter off as a ho-hum event with “Bob who?”
Schoenmann then survey’s past events from Nye County lore.
- The “Brothel Wars;”
- The trial of Sandy Murphy and Rick Tabish about the murder of Ted Binion;
- Pahrump’s passage of the “English-only” ordinance in 2006;
- The child molestation case of Chester Stiles;
- The bribery conviction of Joe Richards;
- The fatal shooting of Nye County Sheriff’s Deputy Ian Deutch;
- And the current embezzlement allegations against District Attorney Bob Beckett.
He also brought up the names of Art Bell and Heidi Fleiss, as residents of Pahrump.
Nye County does have its fair share of “characters.” Maybe there is something in the water, who knows?
[Source: Las Vegas Sun]
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Well stated Carolene. Thank you.