A man recently charged with murder in a 2021 Boulder City shooting has had his bail revoked in another pending criminal case, according to court records.
On Tuesday, District Judge Erika Mendoza revoked bail for John Powell Morgan III on drug charges tied to a 2025 arrest.
Morgan’s defense attorney, Louis Schneider, said Wednesday he believes Morgan is “getting special treatment” because of the controversy surrounding the Boulder City killing.
“Anybody else, the bail would have been reinstated and they’d be placed on house arrest,” Schneider said.
Morgan was charged with murder in October, more than five years after he acknowledged fatally shooting acquaintance Scott Dingman, 40, outside Morgan’s Boulder City home. Boulder City police initially considered the shooting a case of self-defense, but years later, police said they interviewed a witness who told investigators that before the shooting, Morgan had removed a magazine from Dingman’s handgun, completely contradicting Morgan’s original account.
They also said a blood spatter expert found evidence to contradict Morgan’s portrayal of what happened. And, police said they recovered a cache of security video recorded at Morgan’s home on the night of the shooting, but two minutes of critical surveillance video were missing.
Since the killing, Morgan has been charged in two other criminal cases. In one, police said they found cocaine in Morgan’s house while serving a search warrant in the homicide investigation in 2025, prompting drug charges against Morgan. In another, when Morgan was arrested on the murder count, police said they found a gun and metal knuckles in his possession, prompting the filing of weapons charges against him.
Schneider reiterated Wednesday that there was a good reason why Morgan was in possession of a gun and the knuckles.
“He’s had so many death threats that he carried a gun around with him,” Schneider said.
Clark County prosecutor Chase Christensen previously filed a motion to revoke Morgan’s bail in the drug case, citing the weapons found in Morgan’s possession.
Contact Glenn Puit at gpuit@reviewjournal.com.
