Tom O’Connell

Thomas M. O’Connell is the former Senior Litigation Counsel and Chief of the Narcotics and Violent Crimes Section of the United States Attorney’s Office in Las Vegas, Nevada. In addition to his 13 years in the Las Vegas U.S. Attorneys Office, he served for 8 years in the Northern District of California. Tom retired in 2013 and relocated back to Las Vegas. Since then, he has helped trained Las Vegas Metro, North Las Vegas and Henderson police, and U.S. Probation. He’s addressed inmates at High Desert State Prison and guest lectured at both UNLV and Boyd School of Law.

Justice Served In Las Vegas: Brian Wright, The U.S. Attorney And The UFC

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Justice Delayed – Still Sweet In early 2016, a convicted felon named Brian Wright was facing the prospect of spending the rest of his life in prison for masterminding a string of armed robberies which netted $1.1 million worth of jewelry. Then, suddenly, the April 25 trial date for Wright and co-defendant Danielle Perreira was vacated. U.S. District Judge Andrew Gordon ripped into the federal prosecutors handling the case for discovery …

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Lost Cause: Cary Sayegh, Part I

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Where is Cary Sayegh? A gap toothed little boy’s smiling face, frozen in time, confronted the reader’s of the Las Vegas Review Journal  several months ago.  The subject of the photograph was 6 year old Cary Daniel Sayegh.   Circa 1978. The headline, above the fold, read….”The Disappearance That Still Haunts” The subtitle, in bold, …

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More Las Vegas U.S. Attorney’s Office Troubles

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Let’s see, where did we leave off….. Oh yeah, the Cliven Bundy prosecution.  A monumental disaster which resulted in a dismissal, during trial, when the court found “flagrant” ethical violations on the part of the Government. Well since then, the lead Bundy prosecutor, Acting U.S. Attorney, “Semper Fi” Steve Myhre, was replaced by a veteran …

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POP – THE BEST OF 2017 – Matias Ferreira

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Inspiration and Consternation Matias Ferreira Matias Ferreira, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who lost both legs below the knee after stepping on an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan in 2011, became the first double amputee police officer in Suffolk County, New York last week.  Ferreria and his fellow Marines were on a night mission searching a compound for terrorists …

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