LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A man a judge deemed incompetent after he allegedly stalked Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo and his family sat in jail for more than four months and refused treatment before the state transferred him to a mental hospital – it is a process that’s supposed to start within seven days of a judge’s ruling; Stanley Weaver III waited 85.
Weaver, 28, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia, faces charges for threatening Lombardo’s family — and breaking a window of a home where he believed the governor lived — all because he suspects the state leader murdered his neighbor, the 8 News Now Investigators first reported in March.
This story is Part 3 in a series.
A month after his arrest, Clark County District Court Judge Christy Craig, who oversees the county’s competency court, declared Stanley Weaver incompetent to stand trial, sending him to one of two state facilities. As of this month, there are 239 beds in the two facilities for this kind of treatment — treatment that decrees from the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health requires to be “prompt” and “restorative” and treatment that is required to begin within seven days of a judge’s incompetency ruling.
Based on psychiatrists’ findings, Craig will rule if a defendant is competent or not competent to stand trial. The right to a fair trial — and the right to become competent to stand trial — is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by courts.
The seven-day window is a timeframe the state set through a legal decree: The Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health has seven days to transport a defendant deemed incompetent from jail to one of its facilities.
On Sunday, March 3, Las Vegas Metro police were called to a home in the west Las Vegas valley about a man banging on a door “yelling that Gov. Joe Lombardo had killed someone,” according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.
While investigating the incident, a neighbor told police a person broke a window at his neighboring home. According to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained, it appears Stanley Weaver believed the governor lived in the home with his family.
The governor’s family member also told police she suspected Stanley Weaver attempted to call her on Instagram in the days before, documents said. Thirty-seven other Instagram posts about the governor included a picture of an unknown person with Stanley Weaver allegedly saying the person works for the governor and “moved him into the dead man’s condo,” documents said.
“He’s a good kid. He shouldn’t be treated like a criminal,” Stanley Weaver’s mother, Melissa Weaver, said, alongside her husband, Stanley Weaver Jr., and her daughter, Brittany Weaver. The Weavers said they apologize for their son’s and brother’s actions, adding that was not the Stanley Weaver they know.
“Was it almost like a relief that he was going to get help?” 8 News Now Investigator David Charns asked the family.
“Yes, it was a relief that he was going to get help. It was a big relief,” Melissa Weaver said.
The Weavers moved from Sacramento, California, to Las Vegas, they said. During that transition, Stanley Weaver would sometimes be in the apartment alone. Stanley Weaver allegedly harassed Billy Vosburg, his upstairs neighbor for months in 2023, before Vosburg decided to move. Stanley Weaver then started sharing the wild accusation that Lombardo killed Vosburg — who the 8 News Now Investigators found was alive and well.
“At what point did you want to move?” Charns asked Vosburg in an interview that aired in April.
“It was around the time that he chased me in my car around the neighborhood,” Vosburg said.
Records the 8 News Now Investigators obtained show Vosburg called police on Stanley Weaverseven times in the spring of 2023. Vosburg set up cameras, which prosecutors said show Stanley Weaver throwing rocks at the upstairs window.
“He was just messing with that man, doing stuff that’s not normal, breaking out the windows and — people that he doesn’t know,” Melissa Weaver said.
Other documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained reveal police wrote Stanley Weaver was a “constant problem” in the neighborhood. The harassment culminated with a temporary protection order (TPO) signed that June. The order required Weaver to stay 100 feet away from Vosburg.
The order was never served because officers could not locate Stanely Weaver, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained. A Metro spokesperson said officers made several attempts to find Stanley Weaver to serve him.
Last year, Stanley Weaver appeared in competency court on a misdemeanor DUI charge. Craig ruled him incompetent to stand trial. Because of the nature of the charge, Weaver was placed in a misdemeanor diversion program, which meant he had to attend outpatient services at Rawson-Neal, a Las Vegas psychiatric facility.
“The State of Nevada is going to consider dismissing the charges against you if you go to the hospital, talk to the doctors, go to all your appointments and stay out of trouble. Can you do that?” Clark County District Court Judge Cristy Craig asked Weaver in the November 2023 hearing.
“Yes,” Stanley Weaver replied.
Several months later, as Stanley Weaver was posting videos about the claim Lombardo killed his neighbor, court records show he completed the program, where he received treatment, but did not attend a follow-up appointment.
The day he came home, Stanley Weaver wrote a note to his father, his parents said. It said: ‘Dad, should I burn down the house?’
On Feb. 16, without knowledge of the continued harassment or the apartment fire, Craig dismissed Weaver’s original case without any opposition. A video recording from that 42-second-long hearing shows there was no mention of Vosburg, the TPO or Lombardo when Craig asked a prosecutor if Stanley Weaver had stayed out of trouble as Stanley Weaver had no new criminal case.
Records the 8 News Now Investigators reviewed show while the fire happened on Jan. 12, 2024 — a month before the Feb. 16 hearing — Stanley Weaver was not charged with the arson until after this stalking arrest in March.
His parents said there were no witnesses to the fire nor direct evidence their son was the one who set it. Months after that fire, the Weavers were still cleaning up from the smoke and water damage and a smoke detector continued to beep.
Throughout last winter, Stanley Weaver continued to post videos, including several where he called 911 in several states to report Lombardo for murder. By March 2024, a doorbell camera recorded as he showed up to the home where he believed the Lombardos lived.
By then, documents reveal the governor’s security team was aware of Stanley Weaver’s attempts to contact the family and officials were planning to contact him on Monday, March 4. Weaver showed up at the home where he believed the governor lived on Sunday, March 3, police said.
“Nobody got hurt but he went after the right person — he wanted his voice heard– he was crying out for help,” Melissa Weaver said. Members of Stanley Weaver’s family told police “they are fearful that Weaver may harm or kill a member of [the governor’s] family and that they took steps to hide all the knives in the apartment so that Weaver could not access them,” documents said.
While in custody, officers noted Stanley Weaver was placed on a mental health hold in January for attempting to set an apartment fire, documents said.
“I asked myself, ‘How did I not see it?’ but he lived his own life — how did I not see it?” Melissa Weaver said. Judge Eric Goodman set Stanley Weaver’s bail at $1 million. A note in his docket said he has refused “all court appearances.”
On April 17, Craig deemed Stanley Weaver not competent once again. In her ruling, Craig ordered the state to take him to a psychiatric facility within seven days.
Weaver was not transferred until July 11, according to Metro police and his family – three months since Craig’s order and 129 days since his March arrest.
While Metro contracts with a medical provider for medical services at the Clark County Detention Center, the treatment is different from the one required on the state level, public defenders said. Even with the medical care, Stanley Weaver’s mental health continued to decline, records said.
While in custody in jail, though under medical care in jail, Weaver declined medication and went on a hunger strike, documents said. Weaver also was placed on suicide watch for repeatedly putting his head in a toilet, documents said, all “because of Gov. Joe Lombardo.”
As of early October, the average wait time to be transferred from jail to one of the two facilities was 78 days, according to a spokesperson. The decrease in time was due to more staff and added beds — some 50 added earlier this year.
As of September, about 100 people on average were awaiting a treatment bed in Clark County, records said. Craig did not respond to an interview request. Metro police declined an interview request for this story, citing unrelated pending litigation.
This report is the third in a series on competency. Part 1 focuses on James Chatien, a man murdered in jail while he waited for a mental health bed. Part 2 focuses on how a man’s competency case dismissal after he too waited for treatment, led to his arrest for stalking a mother.
8 News Now Investigator David Charns can be reached at dcharns@8newsnow.com.
