A candidate running for Clark County public administrator has a checkered criminal history and recently has been accused of threatening a man in Henderson. Marlin “M.J.” Ivy, one of six candidates running for the office , also has ties to Robert Telles, who was the county’s public administrator when he fatally stabbed Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German in 2022. According to court records obtained by the Review-Journal, Ivy was initially convicted in 2014 of felony battery with a deadly weapon. A jury found Ivy guilty of hitting an employee of a pornographic video rental store with his car, but the case was overturned by the Nevada Court of Appeals in 2015. At the time of the trial, Ivy was serving time in prison for two attempted robbery convictions, court records show. More recently, a man filed a police report in March alleging that Ivy threatened to break his wrists.…