Nye County
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Oct 23, 2026
Sam SchaafHOST
One of the things that the congressional delegation talked about was Switch and saying that they are the gold standard for data centers in terms of how they produce their product.
Sam SchaafHOST
But should the rules be the same, for example, for Nye County as they are for Clark County? Because one is a population center, one has a lot of open space.
Melanie ScheibleGUEST
I certainly think that local jurisdictions also need to be not just involved in the conversation, but they need to have decision making authority on development within those individual jurisdictions.
Melanie ScheibleGUEST
And so I guess I would agree that we should have an understanding we should differentiate, yes, between urban hubs and wider open spaces.
Sam ShadHOST
One of the things that the con- congressional delegation talked about was Switch, and saying that they are the gold standard for data centers in terms of how they produce their product.
Sam ShadHOST
Um, but should, you know, the rules be the same, for example, uh, for Nye County as they are for Clark County, um, because one is a population center, one has a lot of open space?
Melanie ScheibleGUEST
Mm-hmm.
Melanie ScheibleGUEST
I certainly think that local jurisdictions also need to be not just involved in the conversation, but they need to have decision-making authority on, um, development within those individual jurisdictions.
Tom BurnsGUEST
Then we had NNDA, which covers other counties.
Tom BurnsGUEST
We have folks that cover Nye County and Esmeralda County in northeastern Nevada.
Tom BurnsGUEST
We have great representation.
Tom BurnsGUEST
And then central Nevada that covers Humboldt and Persian County.
Carter RoyHOST
The silver charges had a problem of their own, and this jury heard about it.
Carter RoyHOST
On the night of the arrests out in Pahrump, the Nye County sheriff at the time was a man named Wade Lasecki.
Carter RoyHOST
Now, Lasecki turned up at the vault while his own deputies were making the arrest and told them not to go through with it.
Carter RoyHOST
He said they didn't have a case.
Carter RoyHOST
And he didn't stop there.
Carter RoyHOST
Sometime in late August or early September, Ted called the Nye County Sheriff's Office himself, told them what was buried on his lot, and asked them to keep an eye on the place.
Carter RoyHOST
Back in Las Vegas, Ted wasn't living alone.
Carter RoyHOST
The house on Palomino Lane had been his and Doris's.
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Carter RoyHOST
Ted Binion was buried on Tuesday, September 22nd, 1998, five days after the police looked at his body and saw an overdose.
Carter RoyHOST
But the Saturday in between is where this story takes a turn.
Carter RoyHOST
In the early morning hours of September 19th, Nye County sheriff's deputies pulled up at a vacant lot in Pahrump.
Carter RoyHOST
They found floodlights, a backhoe, a tractor trailer, and three men working a hole in the ground.
Sarah TurneyHOST
It's not even a city.
Sarah TurneyHOST
It's an unincorporated town in Nye County.
Sarah TurneyHOST
Really, it's an old mining town turned tourist attraction.
Sarah TurneyHOST
But because we are now crossing state lines, the FBI is brought in to speak to the witness.
Natalie OttHOST
That and other comments by him led to his arrest in 2023.
Natalie OttHOST
State officials have ordered the Nye County Sheriff's Office to update its database policies after allegations of misuse.
Natalie OttHOST
That's according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Natalie OttHOST
A Nevada Department of Public Safety audit found that more than one hundred searches in state and federal law enforcement databases lacked proper documentation.
Natalie OttHOST
Nye County Sheriff Joe McGill admitted documentation was missing but insisted every search served a legitimate law enforcement purpose.
Natalie OttHOST
The Criminal Justice Information System databases contain non-public details like criminal histories, DMV files, and warrants.
Natalie OttHOST
The audit findings have led to new state requirements for the Nye County Sheriff's Office, including staff retraining, quarterly state meetings, and monthly internal audit reports.
Natalie OttHOST
Email records show an employee previously warned superiors about searches targeting online critics, political figures, and members of the media.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
I like that analogy, too.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
You know, I was involved with the Western Shoshone case, United States against Nye County.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
We started out because Nye County, this is in Nevada, Nye County was claiming that it actually was in control of a particular area of land.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
and they wanted to bulldoze a road.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
And the feds came in and said, you're bulldozing federal land.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
I'm going to intervene in the lawsuit and I'm going to prove it's my cow and you both lose.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
So as soon as the Western Shoshone filed that pleading, guess what happened? The U.S.
Peter D'ErricoGUEST
and Nye County sat down and said, we're going to make an agreement here.
Tracy ShaneGUEST
Also, what's super fun about that institution is it's got a ridiculously large service area.
Tracy ShaneGUEST
So it covers all the way down to Nye County and Pahrump.
Tracy ShaneGUEST
Winnemucca, Battle Mountain, Ely.
Tracy ShaneGUEST
And so we would also teach our classes hybrid and remote.
Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, back in those days, in the late '70s and '80s, prostitution was legal in Nevada.
Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Most counties had pro- uh, Nye County, which most of, uh-
Steven CambianHOST
This is interesting
Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Steven CambianHOST
He seems to know a lot about prostitutes and prostitution
Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Nellis testing training range encompassed Nye County, a little bit of Lincoln and a little bit of Clark.
Richard DotySOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, our job was to go out and recruit every single prostitute around the Nellis testing range and pay them.
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