Two men accused of running a monthslong burglary spree through Henderson neighborhoods, including the gated Seven Hills community, are now facing more than a dozen felony charges after detectives tied them to at least seven break-ins between January and March 2026. Yusuf Tahir Scott, 32, and Leonte McClay, 26, were identified as suspects by the Henderson Police Department and are being held at the Clark County Detention Center as they await a preliminary hearing.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Scott and McClay are accused of targeting Henderson homes in a series of sophisticated burglaries that involved cutting power at several targeted properties and breaking in through sliding glass doors. The pair now face charges including burglary, home invasion, grand larceny, and theft exceeding $100,000, along with more than a dozen felony counts overall. Some of the burglaries occurred in the Seven Hills community, per the arrest report cited by the newspaper.
Court records reviewed by the outlet describe the scale of what homeowners lost. One Henderson resident reported approximately $71,000 in jewelry and $10,000 in cash stolen, while another reported roughly $41,000 in jewelry, watches, and handbags taken. At one home, a homeowner told investigators that a floor-bolted safe had been physically removed, leaving nothing behind but the bolts still anchored to the floor.
Surveillance Cameras and Phone Records Cracked the Case
Investigators say the break came through a combination of old-fashioned legwork and newer technology. The Henderson Police Department's probe relied on undercover surveillance and warrants for phone records, and automated license plate reader images ultimately helped identify a vehicle tied to the crimes, the report notes.
That camera network is relatively new. The department expanded its Automated License Plate Reader system in October 2024, installing 54 stationary pole cameras at Henderson intersections and adding units to 18 patrol vehicles using state grant funding, according to the City of Henderson. Henderson police have used license plate reader technology since 2011, but the late-2024 rollout significantly broadened coverage at community intersections, the city said.
Both Suspects Carry Lengthy Prior Records
Court and arrest records cited by the Review-Journal show both men have significant criminal histories outside Nevada. Scott has a voluntary manslaughter conviction in California and was previously arrested on suspicion of murder there. McClay has prior California arrests for burglary and robbery, in addition to prior Nevada arrests for child abuse, sex trafficking a child under 18, and kidnapping.
Those Nevada allegations trace back to September 2020, when McClay was arrested by Las Vegas police and charged with sex trafficking of a child under 18, first-degree kidnapping, child abuse, and living off the earnings of a prostitute after allegedly running a trafficking operation under the alias “Lavish,” according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Two years earlier, in August 2018, McClay was arrested in Compton, California, by the Los Angeles Regional Human Trafficking Taskforce for felony pandering after he allegedly tried to solicit an undercover detective posing as a minor on Instagram, per the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.
What Scott and McClay Could Face in Court
The financial scale of the alleged thefts pushes both men into Nevada's most serious theft category. Under Nevada Revised Statutes § 205.222, grand larceny of property valued at $100,000 or more is a category B felony carrying a prison sentence of 1 to 20 years and a fine of up to $15,000, according to Justia Law. Separately, home invasion under Nevada Revised Statutes § 205.067 is also a category B felony, punishable by 1 to 10 years in prison, or up to 15 years if the suspect was armed, and it specifically requires physical damage during forced entry into an inhabited home regardless of whether anyone was inside, the Las Vegas Defense Group explains.
Both men's out-of-state felony histories could add further exposure. Nevada Revised Statutes § 207.010 allows habitual criminal sentence enhancements for defendants with prior felony convictions, potentially extending prison terms up to life depending on the severity of that record, according to Nevada Revised Statutes law. Scott and McClay are scheduled to appear in Henderson Justice Court for a preliminary hearing on August 25.
A Spree in an Otherwise Declining Crime Trend
The break-ins hit one of Henderson's most affluent addresses. The Seven Hills master-planned community spans 1,300 acres across 25 sub-neighborhoods and includes multiple 24-hour guard-gated enclaves surrounding the Rio Secco Golf Club, where estate values top $7 million, according to the Nevada Real Estate Group. That level of security makes the multi-home power disconnections and forced entries a notable breach of the neighborhood's usual protections.
Yet the spree unfolded even as citywide crime has been trending downward. Statistics from the City of Henderson Crime Dashboard released this month show overall crime dropped 18.98 percent from 2024 to 2025, including a 46.47 percent decrease in burglaries since 2020, according to WIZS. Henderson recorded 1,609 total property crime incidents in 2025, roughly 41.6 percent of all reported offenses in the city that year, per Base Operations. Statewide, residential burglaries make up about 22 percent of Nevada's property crimes and have fallen more than 34 percent since peaking at 24,911 incidents in 2007, according to SafeHome.org.
