Nevada Department of Public Safety

As Carson City and northern Nevada area residents make plans to celebrate the coming holidays, the Nevada Highway Patrol and other Nevada law enforcement agencies ask that you make sure those plans include alternatives to driving under the influence.

A man was was arrested and booked in Carson City by the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Investigation Division for alleged possession of child pornography.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Investigation Division has identified and arrested two suspects in numerous Carson City vehicle burglaries that happened in October and this month.

Over the past few weeks, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office has investigated numerous vehicle burglaries throughout the West and North sides of Carson City. Vehicle windows had been broken out and property was stolen. Surveillance videos from homes and businesses showed a male suspect.

The Nevada Department of Public Safety recently appointed Anne Carpenter as Chief of the Parole and Probation Division. Carpenter officially took command in June 2019. The previous Chief, Natalie Wood, retired in May of 2019.

A three-day statewide public safety exercise, called Operation Silver Crucible 2019, began Tuesday and continues through Thursday around Nevada, including Carson City.

CARSON CITY — Nevada Department of Public Safety Director George Togliatti announced the appointment of Daniel Solow as Colonel of the Nevada Highway Patrol effective Monday, Nov. 8, 2019.

Colonel Solow was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in December 2017 and has been with the Department since 1995, beginning his career with the Nevada DPS as a Trooper serving the Laughlin/Searchlight district. The previous NHP Colonel, John O'Rourke, retired in August 2019.

RENO — The Nevada Department of Public Safety commissioned the state's newest Peace Officers at the Academy 86 graduation ceremony held Thursday, Nov. 7 at the Galena High School Theater.

Of the 17 graduates, 11 will join the Nevada DPS, Parole and Probation Division and 6 will join the Nevada DPS, Highway Patrol Division. The new Peace Officers will be assigned statewide.

Carson City Special Enforcement Team deputies arrested two people on a slew of offenses including organized retail theft, conspiracy to violate the uniform controlled substance act, possession of stolen property valued over $650, sales of a controlled substance, and more.

In an effort to provide enhanced safety for children and to give the public a greater sense of security during Halloween evening, officers from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Division of Parole and Probation, will conduct Operation Scarecrow on Oct. 31, 2019, in Carson City and the Reno, Sparks areas of Washoe County.

The ghosts and zombies and costume super heroes will be out and about now through Thursday, either at organized events or Halloween night trick or treating around the Carson City area, including the Carson Mall, throughout downtown and at the Governor's Mansion.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Transportation and Nevada Department of Public Safety, Highway Patrol are reminding drivers and pedestrians to be safe on the road this Halloween and every day.

The Carson City Sheriffs Office has received a grant in the amount of $38,000 from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety to support law enforcement’s participation in the Joining Forces traffic safety campaigns during the coming year.

The Nevada Highway Patrol and other Nevada law enforcement agencies participating in Joining Forces will be combining resources from Oct. 18 through Nov. 4, 2019 to apprehend impaired drivers.

Officers with the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Division of Parole and Probation conducted a Lifetime Sex Offender Compliance Operation on Sept. 20, 2019. The primary objective of the operation was to verify NPP supervised sex offenders on probation for a period of Lifetime Supervision were residing at the address they provided to state and local authorities pursuant to sex offender registration mandates per Nevada law.

The focus of the operation was placed on personal observation of offenders at their registered address and verifying their reporting place of residence via contact with roommates, neighbors or landlords.

The Nevada Department of Corrections announced it was a sub-recipient of $326,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice’s ‘Residential Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners Program” for Fiscal Year 2019.

CARSON CITY — Nevada Department of Public Safety Director, George Togliatti, announced the appointment of Sheri Brueggemann as Deputy Director, effective June 17, 2019.

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team in cooperation with the Tri-County Gang Unit and Nevada Department of Public Safety Narcotics Task Force has conducted an investigation which has led to a significant arrest.

A Carson City man wanted for felony warrants who evaded deputies following a traffic stop last week was taken into custody Saturday, according to a Carson City Sheriff's Office Special Enforcement Team arrest report.

A second suspect who was identified in a number of vehicle burglaries and credit card fraud earlier this month in Carson City was arrested overnight in Lyon County, a Carson City Sheriff's Office detective said.

On Wednesday, May 22, 2019, at 6:05 AM, NHP Troopers were dispatched to US-50, approximately 30 miles east of Fallon, for a road rage incident involving two motorists. It was reported the driver of a gray Scion sedan fired a handgun at another vehicle.

The Carson City Sheriff's Office has provided an update on a vehicle burglary and credit card fraud case in which the suspects have now been identified, and one apprehended.

CARSON CITY — They are the lifeline on the other end of the telephone. They listen, take notes and gather as much information as they can in seconds.

Those seconds count, especially in matters of traumatic injury or fire or criminal matters happening in real time.

A 52-year-old Moundhouse man was booked in the Carson City Jail on a felony warrant out of Dayton Township Justice Court.

Christopher Allen Reagan was in custody at the Carson City Jail on an unrelated criminal charge when a warrant was sent from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, issued out of Dayton Township Justice Court.

Jorge Pierrott, 43, loving husband and devoted father of two, passed away unexpectedly on April 3, 2019, in Carson City, Nevada.

CARSON CITY — The Nevada Department of Public Safety, State Fire Marshal Division, is asking for the public's help in identifying a suspect believed to be involved in a recent fire in the Fernley area.

The Tri-County (Lyon, Douglas, Carson City) Gang Unit conducted a traffic stop shortly before 6 p.m. on Friday in Carson City that resulted in a substantial seizure of methamphetamine, as well as items used for the trafficking and sale of drugs.

The Carson City School District welcomes two new school board members: Lupe Ramirez, District 1, and Richard Varner, District 4. Ramirez and Varner were accompanied by Stacie Wilke-McCulloch, District 3, and Don Carine, District 6, at the Carson City Court House Monday, Jan. 7, as all four took their oaths of office and were sworn in as elected city officials.

Nevada's 30th governor will take office on Monday, Jan. 7 at an inauguration ceremony held in front of the State Capitol in Carson City.

Stephen F. Sisolak, Nevada's first Democratic governor in two decades, was elected on Nov. 6, 2018. He will take the oath of office on the front steps of the Capitol Monday at 11:30 a.m., according to his inauguration web site.

Carson City, Nev. - The Nevada Department of Public Safety (DPS) Capitol Police Division partnered with Toys For Tots for the annual toy donation event held at the Capitol.

Toys collected from state-agency sponsored locations and a check from the Nevada State Law Enforcement Officers' Association (NSLEOA) were presented to the Carson City Toys For Tots organization, Santa Claus, and the U.S. Marine Corp on Thursday, December 13.

Through New Year’s Day, Northern Nevada residents can expect to see double or even triple the normal law enforcement presence. The Nevada Highway Patrol has joined forces with law enforcement agencies statewide to crack down on impaired driving, and has an important message for the public: if you’ll be drinking, designate a sober driver, and if you drive impaired, you will be arrested.