LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 27-year-old man who was shot by police after prosecutors say he took a pawn shop employee hostage at gunpoint also is accused of being a motorcycle helmet-wearing gunman who tried to rob the same business a month earlier.
Mario Bladimir Trejo appeared Tuesday in separate Las Vegas courtrooms where public defenders said he plans to plead not guilty in both cases.
Judges set Oct. 1 and Oct. 2 preliminary hearings on kidnapping, armed robbery and assault counts in the botched Sept. 3 robbery, and conspiracy and attempted robbery in the Aug. 4 case.
Trejo is jailed on $250,000 bail and will be on house arrest if he's released.
Video showed the pawn shop assistant manager escaping Trejo's grasp and taking his handgun before Trejo reached for a second gun and officers shot him.