KVIG Informative

Two Las Vegas police officers have been arrested on domestic violence-related charges within three weeks of each other. Both remain suspended without pay while the department investigates its own.

Officer Jerry Wheeler was arrested July 4 and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on one count of battery constituting domestic violence, first offense, according to a statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.

Two days later, the Clark County District Attorney’s Office amended the charges against Wheeler, adding one count of child abuse, neglect or endangerment and a second battery count, LVMPD said.

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Wheeler has worked for the department since 2019 and is assigned to the Convention Center Area Command’s Tourist Safety Division. He was placed on suspension of police powers without pay pending the outcome of the investigation, per the department’s statement.

Wheeler’s arrest came less than three weeks after LVMPD Officer Jeremiah Jordan was booked into the same detention center on June 19 on domestic violence-related charges, according to a press release LVMPD posted on its own website. Jordan faces one count of assault domestic violence with use of a deadly weapon, three counts of coercion domestic violence with threat or use of physical force, and one count of domestic battery.

Jordan has worked for LVMPD since 2023 and is assigned to the Community Safety Division’s Enterprise Area Command. He was suspended without pay pending investigation, the same as Wheeler. A judge set Jordan’s bail at $200,000 with high-level electronic monitoring as a condition of release; a prosecutor told the court that two victims are named in the criminal complaint against him.

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LVMPD has not said publicly whether Wheeler’s and Jordan’s cases are connected in any way, and the department has released no further detail on either officer’s personnel or disciplinary history before these arrests. Internal affairs proceedings that follow an officer’s arrest happen almost entirely outside public view, and LVMPD’s public statements have not indicated a timeline for resolving either case.

Two officers, one department, three weeks apart. The open question for Clark County isn’t whether Metro will investigate its own — it already says it is. It’s whether anything about that process will be visible to the public before both men are back in uniform, or gone for good.