Cartel Hall, 32, and Alex Martinez, 28, both of Carson City, were arrested for felony challenge to fight with a deadly weapon, with an included gang enhancement.
Hall was also arrested on two warrants out of Dayton and Storey County, as well as resisting and obstruction.
According to the arrest report, a Gang Detective on the Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team (SET) received information on April 12, 2025 about a possible gang-related fight that occurred in the 600 block of College Parkway which had occurred two days earlier at around 9:30 p.m.
On April 10, deputies had responded to Carson Tahoe Hospital for a report of a battery with a deadly weapon. Upon arrival, they met with Martinez who said he was “jumped and pistol whipped by a wanna be gang member” outside his apartment. He identified Hall and claimed he and Hall had “several disagreements about respect.”
On April 12, the gang detective interviewed Martinez at his home, during which Martinez admitted to being an active Eastwood Toker gang member, according to the report.
Martinez told the detective that he and a family member, who he identified as Hall, had a disagreement over respect during a birthday party about a month prior. Hall is in a relationship with a family member of Martinez. He said Hall is a member of the Hoover Crips, and said the story he’d previously told deputies wasn’t true.
According to the detective, Martinez said Hall disrespected him and his girlfriend by calling her a bitch, at which point Martinez became upset, called Hall a “hoochie” and punched him in the face two times with a closed fist while holding grocery bags.
Martinez said Hall then attacked him by pistol-whipping him twice in the head, and said he believed Hall was attempting to hit him in the temple to kill him.
The detective noted that Martinez had significant bruising below his left eye and near his left ear which ran bilaterally down the left side of his face, consistent with being battered by a blunt force object.
The detective spoke to Hall’s girlfriend, who is also a family member of Martinez. She said Martinez has been calling Hall racial slurs and been acting disrespectful to him. She also said Martinez has been calling her names for dating Hall.
She said Hall confronted Martinez at Walmart and told him not to be disrespectful. She said Hall didn’t want to “make a scene at Walmart” so they followed Martinez home and confronted him again.
She said Hall confronted Martinez first, but Martinez punched Hall first while holding grocery bags, consistent with Martinez’s story. However, she said that Hall did not have a weapon and just punched Martinez with a closed fist.
Another witness to the incident said they believed Hall had been holding a weapon while punching Martinez.
On April 23, Hall called the detective and during the phone call he said Martinez has been “extremely disrespectful to him lately” and has been calling him racial slurs, and Hall confronted him several times about it.
He said he confronted Martinez at Walmart on April 10 while Hall was with his girlfriend and their children. He told detectives he didn’t want anything to happen between him and Martinez in front of Hall’s children, so he waited until Martinez was closer to his home before confronting him again.
He said when he confronted Martinez, Martinez punched him in the face twice while holding grocery bags, and Hall defended himself by punching Martinez back. When the detective asked about a weapon, he said he’d been carrying a gun that night but had handed it to his girlfriend before punching Martinez.
The detective said that based on the interviews and “common gang trends,” “the only way to ‘squash’ or settle a disagreement is to fight. Based on statements that there was an original confrontation inside Walmart and then another confrontation at Alex’s apartment it is reasonable to believe both Alex and Cartel knew they were going to fight one another,” the detective wrote.
If the fight involves a deadly weapon, that makes it a felony, and the detective said that if a weapon is present during the commission of the crime, both subjects conform to the “Challenge to Fight with a Deadly Weapon” statute.
On April 23, detectives went to Martinez at Walmart and took him into custody without issue. They then went to Hall’s residence on Woodside Drive at which point they learned he also had two warrants out for his arrest.
While attempting to arrest Hall, an additional detective stated he’d resisted arrest and attempted to flee into his home when they attempted to take him into custody. They said he pulled away from the arresting detectives, causing him to fall backward into the home, and that the two detectives were “able to overpower him and place him in wrist restraints.”
The reporting detective requested a gang enhancement be added for both Martinez and Hall’s charges.
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