Former LVMPD Officer Pleads Guilty to Aggravated Stalking in Las Vegas

LAS VEGAS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026

A case that began in April with the arrest of a veteran Las Vegas police officer moved toward its end this week in a Clark County courtroom. Jason De La Garrigue, 40, pleaded guilty on Monday, October 12, to one felony count of aggravated stalking. Focal News reported the plea on October 13, citing court records. The plea was to a single count. The case, as filed in the spring, had started with eight.

Sentencing is now set for January 11, 2027, which means the consequences of that plea will not be decided until the new year. In the meantime, the recent paper trail helps explain where De La Garrigue stands today. Court records show a $250,000 bail bond was filed on October 6, less than a week before the plea. And according to his attorney, as reported in national coverage of the plea, De La Garrigue has since retired from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. The department he served for more than two decades is no longer his employer while he waits to learn his sentence.

That is a quiet ending, so far, to a case that opened loudly. In April, FOX5 Las Vegas reported that the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said De La Garrigue, an officer of 26 years assigned to the Airport Bureau, had been arrested and booked into the Clark County Detention Center on eight counts of aggravated stalking. At the time of that arrest, the department said he had been suspended without pay. For an agency that asks the public to call it when they feel unsafe, the allegation cut the other way: one of its own longtime officers was accused of being the source of the fear.

According to FOX5 Las Vegas, the investigation began on April 10, after the Southern Nevada Counter Terrorism Center received information about threatening phone calls. De La Garrigue was arrested the next day, April 11. The speed of that sequence matters. Investigators were not describing a single angry call in isolation. They were describing information serious enough, and specific enough, to move from a tip on one day to an arrest the next.

What investigators alleged at the time, in the arrest report, was a pattern that stretched far longer than one weekend. The report alleged repeated threats, over as long as two years, against multiple people in Nevada and California, including former classmates and their relatives. It alleged that one person received dozens of calls in a single night and was told they were on a “death list” — a short phrase from the report that captures why the people who received the calls said they were frightened. The report also alleged that the threats referenced rifles and ammunition, and suggested that the caller knew where the people he targeted lived.

The search that followed is the other piece of the arrest report that prosecutors pointed to early on. According to the report, a search of De La Garrigue’s home found firearms, loaded magazines and ammunition, along with documents that investigators said matched the threatening messages. Those details, it is important to be clear, were presented at arrest as allegations from the report. A guilty plea to one count of aggravated stalking, six months later, is not the same as a trial verdict on every allegation in that report, and this story does not treat it as one. What the plea does establish, on the record, is that De La Garrigue admitted to the single felony count in court on October 12.

The first major fight in the case was not over guilt. It was over bail. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported in May that Judge Nadia Wood lowered De La Garrigue’s bail from $1 million to $250,000. The hearing, as reported at the time, included arguments from defense attorney David Roger and from prosecutors, and testimony from alleged victims. The conditions attached to the lower bail were strict: electronic monitoring, no weapons, and leaving home only for court or for meetings with his attorney. In other words, even as the amount came down, the court kept him under tight supervision while the case was pending.

Roger’s arguments in that period, as presented in defense filings and in the May coverage, offered a very different explanation for April. He argued that De La Garrigue carried a tragic family background, said detectives had alleged a list of five people De La Garrigue blamed for his brother’s suicide, and said heavy drinking on April 9, combined with prescription medication, had impaired his thinking. Those were the defense’s arguments, made on his behalf and attributed here as such. They were offered as context for what happened and for why the court should see the man differently than the allegations alone suggested. They were not findings by the court, and they should not be read as an excuse that erases the fear the alleged victims described in their own testimony.

Read in order, the timeline is plain, and it is the cleanest way to understand what changed and what did not. In April, an investigation that began April 10 led to an arrest April 11, eight counts, a booking into the county detention center and a suspension without pay. In May, a judge cut bail from $1 million to $250,000 and imposed electronic monitoring and other conditions. In October, court records show that $250,000 bond was filed on October 6. Six days later, on October 12, De La Garrigue pleaded guilty to one count. In January, a judge will sentence him. Each step narrowed the case. The plea, in particular, resolved a prosecution that once carried eight counts without a trial, and without the public airing of evidence that a trial would have brought.

For the people named in the arrest report — former classmates, their relatives, people in two states who said they spent nights fielding threatening calls — the plea may answer the legal question without answering every personal one. A sentencing hearing on January 11 will give the court a chance to hear again from those who want to speak, and to weigh the defense’s account of a man in crisis against the prosecution’s account of a pattern that, as alleged, lasted as long as two years. What sentence follows that hearing has not been decided, and nothing in the plea reporting on October 13 pretends that it has.

Las Vegas saw another long-running court story reach a sentencing on Tuesday, when Duane “Keffe D” Davis was sentenced to 40 years to life in a separate Clark County case. The two cases have nothing else in common — different defendants, different histories, different harms — except the building they passed through and the reminder that a plea or a verdict is rarely the end of what a case leaves behind. For more from the region, see our reporting on the Haney–Stevenson fight that is not signed yet, or browse the full newsroom.