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Suspects Probed In Second Bombing
POSTED: 9:20 am PDT May 11,
2007
UPDATED: 9:06 am PDT May 16,
2007
LAS VEGAS, Nev. -- Two men accused in a deadly Las Vegas Strip bombing may be responsible for at least one other area bombing, according to a prosecutor handling the case.A Las Vegas judge is scheduling both men to appear before him on Friday. One of the suspects, a Panamanian man accused of planting a deadly bomb outside a Las Vegas Strip resort last week, pleaded guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor false identification charge. A Las Vegas justice of the peace sentenced 31-year-old Omar Rueda-Denvers to 10 days in jail, ensuring that he would remain in Clark County jail pending an appearance Tuesday on charges including murder and attempted murder in the May 7 bombing outside the Luxor hotel-casino.The prosecutor also told the judge that there may be other charges coming on at least one other bombing case. Local and federal authorities have been looking for links between the Luxor bombing and the explosion of a pipe bomb beneath a pickup truck parked outside a Home Depot store last Oct. 31. No one was injured in that explosion. Las Vegas Fire Department and federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm officials said that bombing remains under investigation.Authorities say a tangle of romantic relationships involving a group of illegal immigrants provided the motive for the slaying of 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, who died in the Luxor parking lot blast. Police and family members said Dorantes Antonio was dating Rueda-Denvers' ex-girlfriend and the mother of his child. A 27-year-old Nicaraguan construction worker, Porfirro Duarte Herrera, was also arrested in the bombing plot. Herrera is currently being held on charges of being an alien in possession of a firearm, but is expected to face other charges.
Antonio was killed when he left work at the Luxor with his girlfriend, a female co-worker, and then walked to the parking lot and picked up a suspicious item that was left on a 1996 Dodge Stratus.
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