LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - The city manager is fired, the city attorney has resigned, and a Las Vegas judge is holding the City of Mesquite in contempt of court. Longtime residents are calling it “total chaos.”

On Tuesday, District Court Judge Nadia Krall ordered the City of Mesquite to be held in contempt of court for wrongful acts, which include a special meeting calling the former Mesquite police chief to appear before the council and address accusations from an internal investigation.

“This total chaos,” Al Litman, former Mesquite mayor and longtime resident, said. “But it was brought upon by the city manager and the city attorney. We were a smooth-running city for a number of years of very little difficulties.”

The former city manager, Edward Owen Dickie, was fired in April by the city cou

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