LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas resident running for Nevada state Senate in District 8 threatened to blow up a plane on Sept. 9, 2003 — nearly two years after 9/11 — after he missed his connecting flight in Phoenix.
Republican Joey Paulos, a longtime gaming executive running against incumbent Sen. Marilyn Dondero Loop, D-Las Vegas, in the Nov. 8 midterm election, was charged with two counts of false information or threats to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft.
He pleaded guilty in a pre-trial agreement, and after he completed a diversion program, the case was dismissed by the government, according to court records.
