Thursday's car chase leads to charges of eluding, property damage, and possession of methamphetamine

Two Mound House residents were arrested Thursday afternoon in the area of Sonoma Street after eluding officers, destroying property, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, and possession of methamphetamine.

Douglas Williams, 29, and Rachel Mounce, 23, were arrested after deputies responded to a report of a possible kidnapping in a parking lot on Fairview Drive. The report stated that a woman was seen being pulled into a car by two men.

According to the police report, deputies located the car on the other end of the parking lot, and one deputy approached. When the driver of the car saw the deputy, his eyes went wide and he began to creep forward.

The deputy yelled for the driver to stop, at which point the driver took off at a high rate of speed at turned onto Roop street.

Deputies pursued the vehicle, which drove into oncoming traffic on Fairview in order to overtake vehicles in the left lane.

The car continued to drive erratically, blowing through stop lights and driving into oncoming traffic, causing multiple other vehicles to have to swerve out of the way or stomp on their breaks to avoid collision.

Deputies reported the vehicle was driving at approximately 75 miles per hour (mph) on Saliman road.

When the car began accelerating towards a school zone, the deputies decided to terminate the pursuit, and turned off the lights and sirens. Other deputies at the time were attempting to create a perimeter in order to locate the vehicle, which had turned east onto Koontz Lane.

A few minutes later, dispatch informed that a vehicle had crashed into the garage of a Koontz home, and that three subjects, two men and one woman, had ran from the scene.

The vehicle was found completely inside the garage and had caused severe structural damage to the building.

A man was located walking east away from the scene and was stopped. The reporting deputy was called to ID the man as the driver, and when the deputy arrived, he said he was not the driver.

Then the man said, “I was just the passenger,” and he was arrested based on his statement and charged with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage.

The man began to complain of neck and back pain and was transported to the hospital for evaluation. It was determined he would need extended medical attention, and deputies decided to release the man and apply for a warrant or the charge at a later time.

Just after 1 p.m., a call came in that a man and woman had been located in the area of Kitchen and Sonoma Streets.

The reporting deputy arrived on scene and immediately recognized the man as the driver of the vehicle, who was identified as Douglas Williams.

Williams admitted to being the driver of the vehicle, and said that he got scared when he saw the deputy approaching the vehicle in the parking lot, and he did not know why he ran.

Williams was charged with felony eluding, leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, and reckless driving.

When they spoke to the woman, who was identified as Rachel Mounce, she stated she was not taken against her will and there had never been a fight. She said Williams was the father of her child.

It was determined Mounce was on alternative sentencing, and she was arrested for leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage.

Alternative sentencing asked for a hold to be placed on Mounce, who began complaining about pain associated with the crash. She was taken to the hospital for evaluation and eventually released to be booked in the Carson City jail.

While Douglas was being booked, a call came in that methamphetamine had been located inside of the vehicle.

Douglas admitted the methamphetamine was his without prompting.

While at the hospital, Mounce told deputies she saw Douglas throw an unknown amount of methamphetamine out of the open driver’s side window.

Douglas was also charged with possession of a controlled substance.

Bail for Douglas: $22,500

No bail for Mounce.

— A 25-year-old Carson City robotics engineer was arrested in the 800 block of S. Minnesota Street Thursday evening on the charges of felony burglary, felony prevention of a witness from reporting a crime, and misdemeanor battery.

Roberto Alvin Carnes was arrested after deputies were called to a physical domestic assault between a male and a female. There had been four different callers in reference to the assault.

When deputies arrived, they saw two men outside of the residence talking. One man, later identified as Carnes, was not wearing a shirt.

When deputies approached, Carnes said the deputy could not touch him, and quickly walked back into this house and locked the door.

Deputies located the victim, the man’s neighbor, who was with the man’s wife next door.

Deputies spoke to the wife, who said she and Carnes had been having an argument over two cellphones that she had. One was for work and the other was a personal phone. She said she had wanted to get away from Carnes and had gone next door to the neighbors.

They spoke to the neighbor, who said she was woken up to Carnes and his wife fighting, and had gone outside to smoke a cigarette. She said she saw the wife outside and asked if she was okay, and the wife began to cry.

She told deputies the wife had asked to use her phone when Carnes came into her yard.

The neighbor told Carnes to stay out of her yard, but he forced his way in. She said she and the wife went into her house, and Carnes attempted to come in and grab the wife to pull her out.

The neighbor attempted to close the door and call 911, but Carnes grabbed her and shoved her back before grabbing her cellphone and throwing it.

She said they went outside and Carnes slapped the glasses off of her face and continued shoving her.

They went to speak to Carnes, who refused to come out of the house. He finally made contact from an upstairs window and said he wouldn’t be coming down and talking to them unless they had a warrant.

Carnes then came out with his dog and was taken into custody and transported to the Carson City Jail.

A separate witness said they had been walking their dog past the house when they saw a young male yelling and hitting an older woman, and there was a second female who was attempting to separate the man from the woman.

Bail: $26,137