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Man Leaps From Bellagio Garage 3rd Floor To Evade Police

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas police have arrested a man who leapt from the third floor of a parking garage at the Bellagio casino-resort on the Strip in order to try to evade officers.

 

Metropolitan Police Department Lt. David Gordon says police encountered the man on the Strip early Tuesday morning after receiving a report that he had attacked a woman and threw a beer bottle at her.

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The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports the man jumped off a pedestrian bridge and led officers through the Bellagio Parking garage.

 

He jumped from an entrance ramp on the third floor but was caught by police after.

 

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Gordon says neither the man or woman were seriously injured.