Officer with ties to controversial Costco shooting faces felony gun charge

[Bluebear]

Thomas Mendiola, one of the Las Vegas police officers who shot and killed Erik Scott outside the Summerlin Costco last year, has been charged in a criminal complaint with unlawfully giving a handgun to a two-time felon.

The district attorney's office filed the felony complaint late last week against Mendiola, who has been with the Metropolitan Police Department since March 2009.

Mendiola, 23, who is assigned to the Patrol Division's Convention Center Area Command, has been suspended without pay pending the outcome of the criminal case.

He has been summoned to appear in Las Vegas Justice Court on Feb. 24 on the weapons charge, which draws a maximum 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

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