October 28, 2026 - 5:30 am

A Nevada man has sued the Metropolitan Police Department and Clark County Detention Center medical staff, accusing them of failing to properly attend to an infection that resulted in the amputation of his leg.

The lawsuit, filed on Friday in District Court, accuses jail healthcare workers and corrections officers of deliberate indifference to Brian Haney’s serious medical needs. The complaint also accuses Metro, which oversees the Clark County Detention Center, and Wellpath LLC, the jail’s contracted medical care provider, of negligent hiring, training, supervision and retention of employees.

“Mr. Haney did not lose his leg to an accident. He lost it to indifference,” Haney’s attorneys wrote in the complaint. “The infection that cost him his limb did not appear overnight; it festered in plain view, documented by the very people responsible for his care, while timely treatment that could have saved the leg was never provided.…