Carson City deputies arrest man for attempting to steal a woman's car keys, pulling a knife on her husband
Submitted by Kelsey Penrose on Sat, 06/06/2020 - 11:05am
Carson City Deputies arrested a man Thursday afternoon in the area of W. Washington Street and N. Curry Street for attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon after he allegedly tried to steal car keys from a woman and pulled a knife on her husband.
According to the report, Thomas Brown was arrested after deputies were dispatched to an E. Washington Street business in reference to a report of a robbery.
When they arrived on scene they made contact with the victim who said she was walking to the business when she was approached by a white male subject wearing dark clothing and wearing a back pack. She said the man grabbed her car keys in her hand.
She said she held onto them and they began to struggle over them.
The victim said she then punched the man in the face and he finally let go of the keys.
According to the report, the victim’s husband observed the struggle with the man and told him to leave. The man then pulled a knife from his pocket, opened it and “challenged” her husband.
The man then fled the scene going south on Plaza toward Washington.
Deputies spoke to the victim’s husband who said the man attempted to forcibly steal his wife’s keys frothier hands, and the two began to struggle. He corroborated what his wife had told the deputies, and stated he had felt in fear of his life when the man pointed the knife at him.
At around 1:20 p.m., deputies located a male matching the clothing description at the intersection of Washington and Curry. The subject was identified as Thomas Brown and was taken into custody.
The victim positively identified Brown as the man who attempted to rob her and pointed the knife at her husband.
He was taken into custody and booked on attempted robbery and assault with a deadly weapon.
Bail: $40,000
— A 32-year-old Carson City man was arrested in the area of E. Winnie Lane and Lone Mountain Drive for failure to maintain a travel lane, possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
According to the report, Marvin Monroe Higday II was arrested after a deputy with the patrol division observed a vehicle turn North onto Roop Street from E. Long and pull into the opposite, southbound lanes of travel.
Deputies stopped the vehicle and made contact with the driver, identified as Higday. He was shaky, was “sweating from his head” and appeared overall nervous.
When deputies spoke to him about the traffic stop, Higday said he may have been on his phone, causing him to drive into the wrong lanes. When deputies asked if he had ever been in trouble, he said he had been arrested in the past for drug related charges, according to the report.
Deputy K-9 Ben was dispatched to the scene and conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle. Ben alerted deputies to drug odor near the rear passenger door and the driver’s side door.
Inside deputies located a glass pipe and a clear crystalline substance. Higday told deputies it was a pipe and “some meth.”
He was taken into custody without issue.
Bail: $3,724
