Vegas "Sewer Service" Allegations Raise Concerns That Upwards Of 20,000 Court Cases May Be At Risk

In Las Vegas, Nevada, KLAS-TV Channel 8 reports:

• There are new developments and a new arrest in the ongoing investigation into a process serving company and the court system. That company, On Scene Mediation, now has two employees under suspicion of falsifying court documents and putting upwards of 20,000 cases at risk. It could cost $150,000 in taxpayer money to sort through the cases involved.(1)

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• "This is a fraud of a wide-scale proportion," said Barbara Buckley who helps run the Legal Aid Center.(2) She says her hotline has been busy with calls from people saying they have been done wrong. She says the alleged tactics are disappointing. "Throwing the complaints down the sewer. That's what the lawyers call it -- sewer service."

For more, see I-Team: New Developments in Process Server Investigation.

(1) Reportedly, the company owner and employee are accused of saying they served papers but didn't. Maurice Carroll, a former Metro police officer, was running the company out of his North Las Vegas home, and now faces 35 felonies, the story states. Visalia Coleman, one of Carroll's employees, is also facing eight charges. Reportedly, Metro and the courts say the two and other workers at On Scene Mediation lied on court documents about serving papers.

(2) According to their website, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada is a private, non-profit 501 (c)(3) corporation which is a charitable organization and has been dedicated to providing free community legal services for Clark County, Nevada's low income residents since 1958.