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   LAS VEGAS — The DNA from a now-arrested elected Nevada official   
   was found at the scene of a Las Vegas reporter's slaying,   
   authorities said Thursday, revealing the official was also   
   "upset" about stories the reporter was pursuing.   
      
   Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, 45, lost his re-   
   election bid in June amid fallout from a series of critical   
   articles Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff   
   German published earlier this year. Telles, who faces one count   
   of murder with a deadly weapon, made his first court appearance   
   Thursday and was denied bail.   
      
   "It's quite chilling," Justice of the Peace Elana Graham said,   
   "that the defendant's DNA is alleged to have been recovered from   
   the hands of the victim, presumably during the time in which he   
   was fighting for his life."   
      
   New details outlining what led police to close in on Telles as   
   their prime suspect five days after German, 69, was fatally   
   stabbed outside his home Saturday were revealed at a Thursday   
   news conference.   
      
   "Telles was upset about articles being written by German as an   
   investigative journalist that exposed potential wrongdoing," Las   
   Vegas police Capt. Dori Koren said, adding at the time of the   
   attack, Telles had recently discovered "there was additional   
   reporting that was pending."   
      
   Authorities took Telles into custody Wednesday evening following   
   an hourslong standoff at his home. He was hospitalized for what   
   Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo described as self-inflicted   
   wounds. The arrest came just hours after the Las Vegas   
   Metropolitan Police Department had concluded a search of his   
   property and vehicles.   
      
   Authorities: Bloody shoes, DNA lead to Robert Telles' arrest   
   German was stabbed "in the late morning hours" Saturday outside   
   his northwest Las Vegas home, police said, but authorities did   
   not learn of his death until the following day when a 911 caller   
   reported finding German's body on the side of his house.   
      
   Authorities initially suspected the slaying might have been   
   carried out by a person casing German's neighborhood "to commit   
   other crimes." A security camera photo showed the killer   
   carrying a duffel bag and wearing an orange work shirt with   
   reflective stripes, gloves and a wide-brimmed straw hat.   
      
   JEFF GERMAN CASE:Las Vegas public official arrested on suspicion   
   of murder in investigative reporter's death   
      
   Investigators now believe Telles dressed that way to disguise   
   his identity and ties to German, Koren said Thursday.   
      
   While searching Telles' property Wednesday, detectives collected   
   a DNA sample from the suspect, which police said came back as a   
   positive match for DNA found at the scene of German's killing.   
   After receiving the results of the DNA testing later that   
   afternoon, police obtained an arrest warrant, leading to the   
   standoff.   
      
   Police also located a pair of shoes stained with dried blood and   
   a straw hat during their search, Koren said, but as of Thursday,   
   the weapon used in the attack had not been found.   
      
   Arrest report details deadly attack   
   A newly released arrest report obtained by the USA TODAY Network   
   outlined that German was stabbed multiple times in a surprise   
   attack. Authorities believe German fought back, detectives wrote   
   in the three-page report, because he had "defensive" wounds. The   
   suspect's DNA was found under German's fingernails.   
      
   On the morning of the attack, the report says, Telles had been   
   in German's neighborhood for about a half-hour before the death.   
   After the attack, the suspect stood up and "calmly walked" away   
   from German's home, the report states.   
      
   The suspect returned to German's house minutes later, appearing   
   "to look for something," the report reads.   
      
   MORE ON THE KILLING:Las Vegas investigative reporter stabbed to   
   death in altercation outside home, police say   
      
   A reporter who 'devoted his life' to journalism   
   German joined the Review-Journal in 2010 after more than two   
   decades at the Las Vegas Sun, where he was a columnist and   
   reporter who covered courts, politics, labor, government and   
   organized crime. He was 69.   
      
   In a statement, German’s family called him “a loving and loyal   
   brother, uncle and friend who devoted his life to his work   
   exposing wrongdoing in Las Vegas and beyond.”   
      
   “We’re shocked, saddened and angry about his death,” the   
      
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