Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura ordered the shredding of documents from an internal investigation that determined his second-in-command, Deputy Chief Dean Lauer, had used office resources to look for information about adult film stars, the Review-Journal has learned.
In a recorded conversation Las Vegas Township Constable John Bonaventura orders the shredding of documents tied to an investigation of Deputy Chief Constable Dean Lauer Jr. and allegations of researching porn performers.Bonaventura ordered the documents destroyed at a meeting in April 2013, about a month after Clark County commissioners voted to abolish the troubled office when Bonaventura’s term ends in January.
Deputies had raised an alarm after learning that someone used Lauer’s log-on name and password to access the office’s $800-a-month subscription-based database to look up porn actresses, according to documents obtained by the newspaper and interviews with employees of the office.
