DOUG POPPA PODCAST
Prior: US Army Veteran. Former police officer, deputy sheriff, criminal investigator. 20 years experience in the hotel/casino industry as an investigator and director of security and surveillance. USDHS. Current: INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST. Authored 165+ articles on the October 1, 2017 Las Vegas Massacre, more than any journalist in the country published by the Baltimore Post-Examiner. Appearances on local, national radio/television programs discussing my work and how exposing police and prosecutorial corruption/misconduct led to the demise of my police career.
Episodes
Episode 168. August 6, 2025. LVMPD sex, lies, and cover-ups. A compilation video containing excerpts from past episodes of the Doug Poppa Podcast. The Podcast was previously named 'Truth and Consequences with Doug Poppa'.
EXCLUSIVE INVESTIGATIVE REPORT. Episode 167. Wednesday April 2, 2025. On January 11, 2023, a Clark County, Nevada grand jury returned a 26-count indictment on Las Vegas residents Christopher Reindl, Joseph Anthony Paterna and Christopher John Alloca charging all three with one count of first-degree kidnapping, one count of attempted sexual assault and 24 counts of sexual assault, stemming from a February 2, 2017, alleged crime. Why...
166. December 11, 2024. On December 10, 2024, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released the November 11, 2024, body-worn camera (BWC) video of Officers Alexander Bookman (1L3) and Jayce Metcalfe (1L4) while they were at the residence of Brandon Durham. The BWC confirms that Bookman knew the identity of Brandon Durham and Alejandra Boudreaux the day prior to Bookman shooting and killing Durham inside his home after he c...
Vegas cop yells, 'suspect red hoodie, it's the red hoodie', after Brandon Durham shot by another cop
165. December 5, 2024. On November 12, 2024, Brandon Durham a homeowner, called the Las Vegas Metro Police for help during a home invasion. It didn't go well for him. Durham, 43, was shot six times and killed by Officer Alexander Bookman while Durham struggled over a knife with the intruder, Alejandra Boudreaux, 31. Prior to entering Durham's home, the police were aware that the intruder was wearing a red hoodie. Bookman also had ...
164. November 10, 2024. The Las Vegas Police Protective Association, the union that represents the rank and file of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) said that a Convention Center Area Command lieutenant and captain were aware of LVMPD Sgt. Kevin Menon's abuse of power tactics that led to multiple false arrests by a flex squad under Menon's command.
163. October 29, 2024. Update on former Las Vegas Metro Police Vice Sgt. Sean Lucero who retired while on suspension during criminal investigation. Lucero is charged with felony theft and oppression under color of office relating to massage parlor thefts.
162. October 21, 2024. Update on Las Vegas Metro Police (LVMPD) Sgt. Kevin Menon who is charged with multiple criminal counts of abuse of power. Cops comment on LVMPD Capt. Stephen Connell.
161. September 22, 2024. On December 11, 2022, the Doug Poppa Podcast broke the story, 'Exposed: Police Failed to Act as Woman Was Being Murdered', exposing the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) cover-up in the murder of Paula Prado Zuniga. On September 14, 2024, attorneys representing Paula's estate filed a federal lawsuit against the LVMPD.
FORMER LVMPD FOUNDATION EXEC. DIR. THOMAS KOVACH CHARGED WITH 19 FELONY CHARGES, RELEASED ON SUMMONS
Sept. 21, 2024. On September 16, 2024, former Executive Director of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) Foundation was charged with 19 felony theft charges involving misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars of Foundation funds stemming from the years 2018 through 2022. In lieu of being arrested, Kovach was issued a summons to appear in court, first hearing on October 28, 2024. The LVMPD state the case ...
159. Sept. 11, 2024. Las Vegas Metro Police Vice Section sergeant retired while under criminal investigation, vice detective suspended. -- Las Vegas Justice Court record indicates that LVMPD Sgt. Kevin Menon charged with another count of oppression under the color of office, total now 10, one with force which is a felony, 9 are gross misdemeanors. -- Capt. Stephen Connell's flexible deployment teams over the years. -- Sergeant...
158. Sept. 3, 2024. After complaints from police officers, a Las Vegas Metro Police Internal Affairs Bureau investigation uncovered a pattern of unlawful detentions/arrests, violating civil rights, perjury by LVMPD Sgt. Kevin Menon. The Doug Poppa Podcast was the first media outlet to break the story on May 27, 2024.
Ep. 157. Sept.1, 2024. This is an update to an exclusive story first reported by the Doug Poppa Podcast on May 27, 2024, titled 'Vegas cops targeted citizens on Strip, violated civil rights, provoked altercations to make arrests.'
Episode 156. Sunday June 23, 2024. A Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department police officer told the Doug Poppa Podcast that a Jewish man who was wearing a 'Star of David' necklace was falsely arrested at a Pro-Palestine rally that occurred on November 4, 2023, on the Las Vegas Strip in front of the Venetian Hotel.
Episode 155. June 3, 2023. This is an update to episode 154 that was published on May 27, 2024, 'VEGAS COPS TARGETED CITIZENS ON STRIP, VIOLATED CIVIL RIGHTS, PROVOKED ALTERCATIONS TO MAKE ARRESTS'.
May 27, 2024. Episode 154. According to police sources, one squad of Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department police officers assigned to the Convention Center Area Command ran an alleged illegal police operation that targeted citizens on the Las Vegas Strip based solely on their appearance and then provoked them into committing an altercation and or disturbance so they could make arrests.
EXCLUSIVE Episode 123. October 9, 2022. Music by www.bensound.com. Support: paypal.me/dougpoppa. Contact: truthandconsequenceswdp@gmail.com. In this episode I discuss an incident that occurred on July 5, 2022, involving Las Vegas Metro Police Captain Michelle Tavarez and Clark County Fire Department Captain Jasmine Ghazinour. Links to the full episodes mentioned in this podcast can be seen here: (Episode 108, April 3, 2022) KEVI...
April 29, 2024. Gregory B. Dillon, former FBI Special Agent and retired Supervisory Inspector for the Connecticut Office of the Chief State's Attorney talks about his 2022 book, 'The Thin Blue Lie - An Honest Cop vs The FBI'. While assigned to a federal fugitive task force Greg discovered that FBI affidavits for arrest warrants were being falsified. After reporting the misconduct to his boss, Greg was subsequently remo...
Episode 151. Sunday, July 9, 2023. theDoug Poppa Podcast is calling the May 1, 2023, alleged Las Vegas UFO landing and alien sighting a hoax.
Episode 150. Wednesday, June 28, 2023. The Las Vegas resident who claimed to see an object fall from the sky and land in his yard and then saw alien creatures, along with his father and brother on May 1, stated during a June 10 interview on the Canadian UFO podcast, 'Are They Really Here', that it may not have been a UFO, but "might be like a fallen angel". Contrary what he told theDoug Poppa Podcast on May 27, w...
Jun 23, 2023 LAS VEGASEXCLUSIVE. Episode 148. Thursday June 22, 2023. Sources say the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's video and audio surveillance system that was installed by the Homeland Security Division on the private property of the family who claimed to see non-human creatures, was monitored by personnel at the Southern Nevada Counterterrorism Center. Was the family's sighting a hoax? Was there something...
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