SET deputies arrest four in connection with felony drug crimes from local inn

A 20-year-old Carson City woman, a 33-year-old Carson City man, a 27-year-old Carson City man, and a 33-year-old Carson City man were arrested in the 200 block of W. Caroline for several drug-related felonies.

Special Enforcement Team deputies arrested the Sarina Welch, Graften James Dodge, Trevor Hammond, and Ronald Nigra after SET received several tips, information and complaints regarding drug use and sales at a room in a downtown Carson City Inn.

Deputies went to room and made contact with Welch, one of the registered owners of the room, according to the report.

Welch is on Alternative Sentencing and is not allowed to possess any drugs or paraphernalia and is prohibited from contacting James. When she answered the door, deputies could hear the shower running in the bathroom. Welch told deputies she was just about to get in the shower, despite the fact that she had all of her clothes, jewelry and socks on.

Deputies thought she was lying and asked her to step outside. She admitted that James was inside and that she was in possession of a marijuana pipe. Deputies asked her to show it to them and she said yes.

Welch led them into the room and deputies immediately noticed a digital scale with what appeared to be methamphetamine on the couch. There were two small lockboxes in the corner of the room along with an open soft-cooler with tourniquets, foil, and hypodermic devices.

Deputies went to the bathroom and told James to come out. The Department of Alternative Sentencing was contacted about Welch and they requested she be arrested for the violation.

James agreed to speak with deputies and told them there was additional heroin paraphernalia and heroin in the room. There was a heroin use kit, which included a small amount of heroin and hypodermic devices in a yellow case in the armrest of the futon. There was also a camouflage bag on the couch which contained additional paraphernalia including syringes, tourniquets, baggies, and small amounts of heroin. There was a methamphetamine water pipe on top of a clothing rack in the corner of the room.

James denied any heroin or methamphetamine use.

James gave consent to look through his phone, which included several text message strings involving people asking James for methamphetamine and James asking where he could buy heroin.The most recent string of text was from a person named Ronald Nigra, who lived in another room at the inn.

Nigra was offering to sell James methamphetamine, approximately twenty minutes prior to SET’s arrival at the inn.

In another text message string, James told Trevor Hammond he needed to return to the room to pick up his items. James explained the yellow heroin kit located in the futon belonged to Hammond.

Deputies did a warrants check and learned that Nigra had a felony warrant out for his arrest from Douglas County for burglary.

Deputies set out to locate Hammond who was seen leaving the motel room just prior to deputies’ arrival. Deputies located Hammond and took him into custody in the south parking lot.

James and Welch were taken into custody as well.

Based on the information, deputies applied and were granted a warrant in order to seize the evidentiary items in the room, as well as a search warrant for Nigra’s room.

SET deputies knocked on Nigra’s room and after there was no answer, deputies gained access to the room with use of a ram.

Nigra was seated inside and deputies ordered him out at gunpoint. He was taken into custody.

Inside Nigra’s room deputies located several baggies, a tooter straw with methamphetamine, a syringe plunger with heroin, and several Libroderm patches.

Sarina Welch was booked for: Possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, and DAS violation.
Bail: $6,637; $3,000 cash only

Graften James Dodge was booked on: conspiracy to violate UCS, possession of a controlled substance, possession of paraphernalia, and DAS violation.

Bail: $24,137; $500 cash only

Trevor James Hammond was booked on: possession of a controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia.
Bail: $3,637

Ronald Vincent Nigra was booked on possession of paraphernalia, two Douglas County warrants, possession of a controlled substance, and conspiracy to violate UCS.
Bail: $49,237

— A 36-year-old Carson City woman was arrested for allegedly smoking and injecting methamphetamine in a grocery store parking lot before entering the store and stealing a cart-full of groceries.

According to the report, AnnMarie Southern was arrested after deputies received a call regarding a woman who appeared to be injecting drugs and smoking from a methamphetamine pipe in a vehicle parked in front of a grocery store.

While enroute, dispatch advised the woman had gone inside the store but the reporting party was able to give a description of the woman.

When deputies arrived on scene, they saw a woman who matched the description exit the store pushing a cart full of unbagged grocery items. The woman began loading items into her vehicle when deputies approached her and asked if they could talk to her regarding a report of drug use.

While they were speaking to her, a grocery store employee came out of the store and took a picture of her vehicle. They informed deputies that the woman had walked out of the store with the grocery store full of items without paying for any of them.

Deputies detained her, and learned that the woman had stolen $301.68 worth of items, most of them being consumables. A criminal history check revealed Southern had two prior convictions for petit larceny and she was arrested for burglary.

During an inventory of her vehicle deputies located methamphetamine, heroin, and prescription pills without a prescription, along with a drug kit.

Inside the drug kit deputies located syringes, a lighter, small cotton balls, a tourniquet, a pocket knife, tooter straws, two metal containers used to mix-heat drugs, and small plastic baggies.

When speaking with southern, she admitted that the items belonged to her and that she intended to steal the items she stole because she did not have money for groceries. She said that she did have some money but it was for bills.

She was taken into custody without incident.

Bail: $28,132

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