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Your report came as news to Las Vegas Metro. "I’m not sure what they’re talking about," said Public Information Officer Laura Meltzer. We confess this sender's email was the first we'd heard of it, too, and a request for more information, like when and where specifically on the Strip, went unanswered.
Meltzer confirms that Metro does auction cars to the public, once they’ve reached certain mileage and performance benchmarks. These retired vehicles are stripped of their emergency gear and their decals before being re-sold. In fact, there just so happens to be one of Clark County's three annual Public Auctions coming up on Saturday, Feb. 28, an event which will feature the usual array of equipment no longer used or needed by various government agencies throughout Southern Nevada, plus up to 500 lost-and-found items from McCarran International Airport. Expect to find everything from laptops, iPads, and cameras, to heavy equipment, trucks, and cars, including -- yes! -- police vehicles, all coming under the hammer that day.
We're still curious as to where you saw "cop car cemetery" and if you were at the south or north end of the Strip/Las Vegas Boulevard. If at the northern end, perhaps the vehicles you saw were being gathered for this upcoming sale, which will take place, as usual, at 8 a.m. sharp at a storage yard located at 4320 Stephanie St. Visit the official website via the link above for further information and instructions on when you can preview and how to bid on any item that takes your fancy. If you can't make it to this one, there are two future sales planned for May 15 and November 21.
Without any more information, that's all we can come up with on this one. Next!