Nevada
Nevada sweeps regular season matchups from UNLV
RENO, Nev. (AP) – Jarod Lucas had 26 points in Nevada’s 75-65 victory over UNLV on Saturday night.
Lucas shot 8 for 16 (4 for 9 from 3-point range) and 6 of 7 from the free-throw line for the Wolf Pack (26-6, 13-5 Mountain West Conference). Kenan Blackshear added 16 points while going 5 of 10 and 6 of 6 from the free-throw line while he also had nine assists. Nick Davidson shot 4 of 11 from the field, including 0 for 3 from 3-point range, and went 3 for 4 from the foul line to finish with 11 points. It was the seventh straight victory for the Wolf Pack.
Keylan Boone led the Rebels (19-11, 12-6) in scoring, finishing with 24 points. Dedan Thomas Jr. added 23 points for UNLV. Rob Whaley Jr. finished with six points and eight rebounds. The loss snapped the Rebels’ five-game winning streak.
Nevada took the lead with 19:30 remaining in the first half and did not relinquish it. Lucas led his team in scoring with 15 points in the first half to help put them ahead 39-31 at the break. Nevada used an 11-2 second-half run to come back from a one-point deficit and take the lead at 58-50 with 7:00 left in the half before finishing off the victory. Lucas scored 11 second-half points.
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Nevada
ICE arrests skyrocketed in Nevada last year
Nevada has not seen the barrage of armed federal officers carrying out immigration enforcement that other cities have seen, but immigration arrests in the state increased drastically last year, with at least 2,155 detained in the first 10 months of President Donald Trump’s second term.
The number of people arrested in immigration enforcement and removal operations under Trump is three times larger than former President Joe Biden’s final year in office in 2024, which saw 634 arrests throughout the state.
The Deportation Data Project, a group of academics and lawyers that collects and shares U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets, has compiled data or arrests nationwide through Oct. 15.
All arrest data was obtained through public information requests and litigation and most likely doesn’t represent the full scale of arrests or deportation efforts.
Roughly 70% of people who were arrested in Nevada had been detained through local jails and detention without any clear indication in the data of what their underlying offenses were, and more than 40% had no criminal convictions or records.
In an email to Nevada Current, Deportation Data Project explained that street-based arrests or “immigration raids,” which are a smaller portion of the numbers of those arrested, can show up in the data as “non-custodial arrest” and “located” categories.
The Current analyzed the data and found 273 “non-custodial” arrests and 326 identified under “located” categories, a 700% and 300% increase respectively from 2024.
In Biden’s final year of office, the project only found 34 “non custodial” arrests and 83 under the “located” categories.
Of those arrested, a large majority — 1,276 people — were from Mexico while 175 people were from Guatemala and 154 were from El Salvador.
Nevada immigrant advocates and civil rights attorneys say there are many unanswered questions about who is being arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
But the one thing that is becoming clear is “the story of 2025 was a story of massive increase in ICE arrests,” said Michael Kagan, director of the UNLV Immigration Clinic.
“Just because we don’t have people in armed fatigues walking through East Las Vegas does not mean that ICE has not ramped up considerably,” Kagan said. “ICE is here and is making more arrests than ever.”
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security didn’t respond to numerous requests for comment.
The UNLV Immigration Clinic and the ACLU of Nevada have both struggled to track the full scope of people detained, arrested and deported.
Despite submitting records requested to DHS and local agencies to figure out who is being detained, the numbers “are not typically put out in a very transparent fashion,” said Athar Haseebullah, the executive director of the ACLU of Nevada.
He also doubts federal agencies’ willingness to provide accurate information, adding the administration “is insistent and open to lying.”
The data collected by the Deportation Data Project confirms what the UNLV clinic is seeing through client intakes and calls from the community, Kagan said. People accused — not always convicted — of low-level offenses are being swept up in immigration enforcement and the deportation process.
The data might be incomplete, but it does provide a snapshot of what is happening in Nevada.
“The hard part is because the enforcement actions are often taking place on residential streets and neighborhoods, there’s no way to accurately understand the full gamut of how they’re operating here,” Haseebullah said.
They haven’t had their day in court
The data analyzed by the Current showed 43% of cases — 934 arrests — were listed as “pending criminal charges” without any indication of what those charges could entail.
“I think it’s really key and important to remind people that an arrest means nothing,” Haseebullah said. “It’s indicative of nothing. You haven’t had your day in court. If we started basing everything off arrests alone, then our system of justice would be useless.”
Trump and White House officials repeatedly claim immigration enforcement is going after the “worst of the worst.”
But from the cases Kagan has seen through the clinic, these arrests are commonly DUIs and other issues like “low level drug offenses” like simple possession.
“You’re not talking about the worst of the worst, as they usually describe it,” he said.
The aggressive immigration enforcement is circumventing the normal criminal justice system and people’s ability to challenge the offenses they are accused of.
“We have clients who have a pending DUI charge and have a very strong account for why they think they are innocent of the DUI,” Kagan said. “I think that the district attorney probably has never heard their version of events, and that’s unfair.”
Another 44% of the cases, 951 arrests, are listed as having a criminal conviction, but again the data doesn’t specify what the conviction was for or how long ago the arrest was.
The category of what could be considered a criminal conviction is too broad, Kagan noted, and doesn’t distinguish between crime like low-level drug possession or a Class-A felony such as murder.
The ambiguity plays on the “rhetoric casting all immigrants as if they are Class-A felons,” he said.
The administration’s implementation of its crackdown “makes no distinction between a homicide conviction and trespass,” Kagan said. “I think to meaningfully talk about this the way normal people would think of it, you’d need to know what kind of crime” the people being arrested have been accused of, “and they don’t provide that data.”
Another lingering question is how old some of these convictions are, Haseebullah said.
There have been cases where people are being swept up on decades-old convictions.
Haseebullah said he was informed of an arrest and a conviction for a DUI that occurred in 1990.
Another 270 cases in the data are categorized as immigration violations. The data doesn’t provide any further information on those violations.
Two systems of justice
The increased immigration enforcement is not only sweeping more people into deportation, but also created two systems of justice, Kagan said.
For a U.S. citizen, if they are arrested for an offense like DUI or low-level drug possession, they would have their day in court where they are innocent until proven guilty.
Immigrants will never face trial and instead will “just be handed over to ICE.”
The initial arrest “is just the front end of the deportation pipeline,” Kagan said. “We find, anecdotally, with our cases, some of them have no criminal record. Some of our clients and prospective clients were arrested on something like a DUI.”
For those who could be found guilty and convicted of a crime, “they may actually not face the punishment that a citizen would face,” Kagan said.
The system makes ICE a “getaway driver” for cases that could normally carry serious prison time.
Local police at the ‘front end’ of deportation system
The largest number of immigration arrests in Nevada last year — more than 1,500 — were people who were already incarcerated by state and local law enforcement, according to the Deportation Data Project.
Clark County Detention Center accounted for 633 of the arrests through Oct. 15. There were 140 immigration arrests at the jail in 2024.
“That means that basically Las Vegas (Metropolitan Police Department) and other police departments are the front end of the deportation system,” Kagan said.
The data only found one instance of law enforcement complying with 287(g) agreement, by which local authorities help ICE holding people in custody after their release.
LVMPD ended its 287(g) involvement in 2019 but authorized a new agreement in summer 2025. The new agreement is likely not yet reflected in the available data, Haseebullah noted.
Laken Riley Act one year later
Trump’s focus on carrying out more immigration enforcement by detaining and deporting was part of a campaign promise. The Laken Riley Act, which he signed into law during his first month of office and touted as part of his fulfillment of that promise, was a mechanism that critics warned would give the administration more leeway to detain more immigrants by depriving them of their due process rights.
The legislation allowed for undocumented immigrants arrested or charged with crimes like shoplifting, theft and larceny to be detained even if there isn’t a conviction.
Nevada’s entire Democratic delegation voted for the bill despite heavy pushback from immigration attorneys and groups.
Haseebullah said the bill was terrible “namely because it sort of crushed the notion of civil liberties in due process.”
It’s hard to get a full understanding how the act has affected people in Nevada, he said.
The UNLV Immigration Clinic has only successfully litigated one case “to prevent the application of the Laken Riley Act to someone who had been found innocent by a jury,” Kagan said.
The case has been sealed and he was unable to provide further details, except that “DHS pressed forward and wanted to detain them as if they were still guilty.”
If federal agents only relied on the Laken Riley Act to detain more immigrants, “that would have been bad enough,” Haseebullah said.
“It seems almost as if they saw a hurdle in the form of Laken Riley Act and jumped over it,” he said. “Now they just ignore the Fourth Amendment” which protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures “and every basic constitutional protection as a whole.”
Kagan agreed that current tactics by federal immigration officials essentially rendered the Laken Riley Act irrelevant.
Instead, the administration is focused on mandatory detention “of basically every undocumented immigrant,” he said.
Though it seems agents have bypassed the federal legislation, Kagan said Democrats should have never voted for the Laken Riley Act.
“I think it does not speak well of an elected official when they can only stand for immigrants, when Gallup polls tell them that the weather is good,” Kagan said. “I think that they would do better to indicate to the public that they stand firm in a position even when the polls run one way or the other.”
Nevada
NHP: ‘I will shoot,’ woman says before trooper fires round through her vehicle
The Nevada Highway Patrol on Wednesday released video footage from an early Sunday traffic stop that led to a trooper firing a round into a woman’s vehicle.
Col. Michael Edgell said during a news conference Wednesday afternoon that Barbara Lu, 51, was taken into custody during a traffic stop in Las Vegas early Sunday after she pulled out a handgun and pointed it at a trooper.
Trooper body camera footage showed Lu inside her vehicle after she was pulled over on an Interstate 15 on-ramp at St. Rose Parkway at around 1 a.m. on Sunday.
Dramatic video
As a trooper approached her vehicle and attempted to get Lu to exit, a dog came out of the vehicle and made an aggressive move at the trooper, the video footage showed.
Lu can be heard screaming and at one point said “I will shoot.”
Moments later, a trooper dash cam video showed two troopers outside Lu’s closed driver’s side door as one attempted to break the window.
In body camera footage from another trooper, that trooper can be heard saying “she’s got a gun” before he darted to the back area of the vehicle.
Seconds later, a trooper identified by Edgell as Kenneth Ducut fired one round that went through the driver’s side window and the vehicle’s windshield.
Video clearly showed the flash from Ducut’s shot. Lu then dropped what was in her hand and raised both empty hands.
Edgell said he was proud of how the troopers handled the situation.
“We never fire a warning shot whatsoever and I don’t think any police department will,” Edgell said. “We train our people that you only shoot to stop the threat. She had a gun in her hand and she pointed it at a trooper. She had a gun in her hand when he fired that shot.”
Edgell said Lu, who was taken to a local hospital before being taken into custody, was not seriously injured, though she did have some scratches on her neck.
“In a perfect world, she would have gotten out of the car and we would have conducted business on the side of the road,” Edgell said. “Unfortunately, she was in control of that situation and we have to be as safe as possible. We weren’t going to approach that vehicle without another cover unit and we didn’t know what to expect at that point.”
Multiple charges
According to Las Vegas Justice Court records, Lu was charged with assault on a protected person with use of a deadly weapon and resisting with a firearm, both felonies, along with misdemeanor counts of DUI, failing to obey a red light, and parking a vehicle on the highway.
A Clark County Detention Center online jail roster showed Lu listed as an inmate as of Wednesday afternoon. A Montana resident, Lu is scheduled for a preliminary court hearing over the felony charges on Feb. 25, according to online records.
When they searched Lu’s vehicle, troopers later found a Sig Sauer 9mm pistol with one round chambered in the vehicle, Edgell said.
Along with the dog that appeared to attack one of the troopers, Lu also had another dog in her vehicle. The Metropolitan Police Department investigated the incident and Edgell said the ongoing investigation into the matter would likely last several months.
Contact Bryan Horwath at bhorwath@reviewjournal.com. Follow @BryanHorwath on X.
Nevada
Globex Discovers Rare Earth Mineralisation in Nevada
TORONTO, Feb. 11, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — GLOBEX MINING ENTERPRISES INC. (GMX – Toronto Stock Exchange, G1MN – Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Berlin, Munich, Tradegate, Lang & Schwarz, LS Exchange, TTMzero, Düsseldorf and Quotrix Düsseldorf Stock Exch anges and GLBXF – OTCQX International in the US) is pleased to announce that it has acquired by staking through its wholly owned subsidiary Globex Nevada, a contiguous block of unpatented lode mining claims in Lincoln County, southeastern Nevada, linearly 170 km northeast of Las Vegas. Simultaneously with the acquisition of the Gem Hills Property rare earths property , Globex completed a prospecting and sampling program.
Highlights of Property Sampling/Prospecting (see Exhibit 1, for property location and Exhibit 2 for sample locations):
- Sampling returned significantly high-grade rare earth oxide (REO) values assaying between 0.28% and 5.26% TREO and averaging about 1.7% TREO containing up to 18.97% HREO and 35% Nd2O3 +Pr2O3.
- Sampling results were characterized by high grade TREO (total rare earth oxides) and local enrichment of the (more valuable) heavy rare earth elements (HREE). Gem Hill REE mineralisation identified in trenches and sampling shows an exposed strike length of at least 90 m along a NE-orientated segment, and potential 40 metre extent to the west. and REE mineralisation is open to the south and north but is concealed under overburden.
Exhibit 1. Location map of Globex’s Gem Hills Rare Earth Elements (REE) Property.
Exhibit 1 shows the location of the Gem Hills property and the location of MP Materials Mountain Pass REE mine and the Virgin Mountain REE project (optioned from Globex to Lodestar Minerals Ltd.). Mountain Pass accounted for approximately 12% to 14% of the world’s rare earth mined output (mainly LREE). The U.S. government, primarily through the Department of Defense (DoD), provides significant support to MP Materials’ Mountain Pass rare earth mine, including a major 2025 loan for heavy rare earth separation, grants for processing upgrades, and a price-floor agreement for Nd/Pr all aimed at securing a domestic supply chain for defense and high-tech industries, reducing REE reliance on China, and boosting U.S. industrial independence.
History, Geology, Sampling by Globex
The property herein called the Gem Hills Project was staked to cover rare earth elements (REE) mineralisation that had been discovered in 2024 by Globex during a regional prospecting campaign. The project is located outside any known mining district. Several small historic prospects and two shallow shafts date probably back to the 1930’s to early 1940’s. These old workings explored and mined at small scale massive limonite (iron-oxide) and manganese oxides not rare earths.
In 2024 Globex had collected already 13 surface rock samples within and in the vicinity of the Gem Hills property. In late 2025 a total of 39 rock samples (34 within the property), including 17 channel samples, had been collected from seven hand dug trenches, from prospect dumps and rock outcrops.
The Gem Hills property lies at the southeastern margin of the Caliente Caldera Complex, situated in the extreme southeast of the Great Basin geological province. Felsic and intermediate calc-alkaline volcanic rocks erupted between 24 and 18 Ma from the caldera complex during the Late Oligocene until Early Miocene. In the district around the Gem Hills project appear numerous isolated (some several km across) geological windows of Lower Paleozoic carbonate-rocks surrounded by mostly extrusive volcanic rocks erupted from the Caliente Caldera. Isolated small intrusive stocks or plutons of mostly Tertiary age appear locally at the margin of the Caliente Caldera Complex.
Oldest rocks in the property area are generally thick bedded massive limestone and dolomite, probably of Devonian age. These rocks appear in an isolated irregular-shaped domain of carbonate rock measuring about 2.5 km E-W and 2 km N-S. It is surrounded by mid Tertiary volcanic rocks erupted from the Caliente Caldera. Those comprise lava flows, breccias, tuff and subvolcanic stocks/dikes of andesite & dacite, latite, quartz-latite and rhyolite. Part of the southern portion of the property is dominated by an almost rectangular-shaped SW-NE orientated intrusive stock of subvolcanic mostly porphyritic alkaline monzonite and syenite with dimensions of about 500 x 800 m.
REE mineralisation occurs along the east side of a north trending limestone/dolomite “nose” in faulted contact to felsic volcanic rocks (mainly latite). The contact dips steeply W and E and is not linear, but undulated with several indentations. Larger mineralized zones developed in these indentations or deeper embayments. Locally near the contact appear also massive limonite bodies, limonite replaces here latite breccias. These limonite pockets are short, but can approach width of up to 3-5 m. However limonite bodies do not carry any rare earth mineralization. The REE mineralisation developed directly at the brecciated/faulted contact to the Devonian limestone/dolomite, extending further away as mixed clayey breccia zone of carbonate rock and volcanic rock with lower grades, locally extending also into argillic-phyllic altered volcanic rocks. Apparently especially the carbonate fragments had been replaced by REE minerals and mostly, but not always, also by more or less abundant black manganese oxide minerals.
Highest grades with highest HREE (heavy rare earth elements) contents came from a mine dump derived from an about 8-10 m deep shaft and from a smaller prospect dump. Total mineralisation width could not always be exposed by the trenching due to deeper overburden, but varies between about 1.0 m and up to at least 5.0 m. Sampling & trenching indicated that mineralisation extends at least along a 90 m long NE-orientated segment, whereas mineralisation in indented zones may extend to the west into the limestone domain for up to 40 m away from this NE trending contact line limestone/dolomite to volcanic rocks. REE mineralisation is open to the south and north but is concealed under deeper overburden.
Exhibit 2. Geology of Globex Gem Hills Property REE zone that has been mapped and defined by sampling (including 17 channel samples) of historic mine dumps and 7 hand-dug trenches.
The Gem Hills REE project is characterized by high TREO (total rare earth oxides) and local enrichment of the (more valuable) heavy rare earth elements (HREE). Gem Hills mineralisation contains considerable amounts of the high-value REE from the light rare earth group (LREE) praseodymium, neodymium and from the HREE group gadolinium , terbium, dysprosium , holmium and erbium.
Furthermore, mineralisation contains abundant yttrium with up to 0.435% Y2O3 (low value in China, but at times very high prices in Europe, USA and Canada due to sanctions and restrictions).
From 34 rock samples collected within the property in autumn 2025, 18 samples returned significantly high rare earth oxide (REO) values (plus one sample collected in 2024) assaying between 0.28% and 5.26% TREO and averaging about 1.7% TREO. The share of HREO from TREO varies greatly between about 2% and up to 19% , averaging about 8%. Highest HREO share was found in prospect dump samples. The share of high-value REO (these include highly priced HREO and LREO) varies greatly between 1.5% and 39.7%, averaging about 17%. The share of the LREO Nd2O3 + Pr2O3 from TREO varies greatly between 1.0 and up to 35% averaging 13.7% and approaching a maximum combined grade of 1.14% (11.4 kg/t Nd2O3 + Pr2O3). (Note : surface rock and grab samples, by their nature, are selective samples and may not represent true underlying mineralisation.)
Locally some of the most expensive HREE are strongly enriched, those include Dysprosium and Terbium. Highest Dy2O3 grade was 0.09% (0.9 kg/t) and highest Tb2O3 grade was 0.016% (0.16 kg/t).
It is worth noting that the Gem Hills REE mineralisation is not associated with any radiation anomaly (essentially absence of uranium and thorium). High-grade, low-radioactivity REE deposits offer a “cleaner,” cheaper, and safer path to supplying essential REE for modern technology, making them highly valuable. However, most of these low-radioactivity REE deposits (mostly carbonatite-tied deposit type) cannot cover the required industrial demand in HREE. Gem Hills with its extremely low radiation levels (actually background levels) and relatively high share of HREE offers a unique opportunity for recovery of LREE and HREE without the environmental impact of high radioactivity REE ore.
Major mineral phases had been identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD) testing of four high-grade samples through SGS TEC Services, Lawrenceville, Georgia. The principal mineral assemblage of high-grade ore is dolomite/calcite-nacrite-gibbsite-Mn-oxides-fluorite-monazite. The REE-rich mineral paragenesis at the faulted/brecciated contact between Tertiary felsic volcanics and Paleozoic sedimentary carbonate rocks formed by hydrothermal-metasomatic carbonate replacement, probably through a complex multi-stage magmatic-hydrothermal evolution with a transition from high-temperature, near-neutral fluid transport to a low-temperature, acidic, and highly oxidative environment. Less than 10% of REE are contained in monazite, the bulk of REE might be contained in fluorite, in yet unidentified minor mineral phases (below the 2-3% detection limit of the XRD testing) or is adsorbed to nacrite and gibbsite. Gem Hills REE mineralization with its unusual mineral assemblage stands alone and appears to represent a new hydrothermal-metasomatic REE deposit type.
The Gem Hills REE property is currently being studied for future exploration programs or option.
Table 1. Selected Sample List with REO Assay Results from Gem Hills REE property
Analytical Methods
Samples were placed in labelled plastic bags, sealed with a plastic zip and shipped to American Assay Laboratories (AAL) in Sparks, Nevada, USA for preparation and geochemical analysis. AAL is an ISO 17025 certified laboratory. Samples are crushed and a 300 g subsample pulverized to >85% to -75 micron. All samples had been assayed with the IO-4AB51 method for 51 elements including all REE with 4 acid digestion (HNO3, HF, HClO4, HCl and H3BO3). 4AB is a near total digest (resistant phases e.g. corundum, ilmenite, rutile et al., are not digested). With this 4AB digest rare earth >10000 ppm will cause double fluoride precipitation (causing lower readings than real REE grades). Digest is then analyzed with ICP-OES in ppm. Typical internal standards and checks were completed by AAL during analysis. All those samples that returned >1000 ppm in any REE with the IO-4AB51 method had been re-assayed for 27 elements with method IO-NF27. In total 17 samples had been re-assayed. Samples are fused with sodium peroxide flux for total digestion. Fused sample is then dissolved and analyzed via ICP-OES in ppm.
This press release was prepared by Matthias Jurgeit, Eurogeologist under the supervision of Jack Stoch, P.Geo., CEO & Executive Chairman of Globex in his capacity as a Qualified Person (Q.P.) under NI 43-101.
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