A 61-year-old man was arrested Saturday for suspicion of misdemeanor DUI second offense, driving without a valid license and failure to maintain lane, according to a Carson City Sheriff’s Office booking report.
According to the report, at around 12:35 a.m. a deputy observed an SUV fail to come to a complete stop at the stop sign at North Carson and Telegraph streets. The deputy followed the vehicle and watched as it drove south in the northbound travel lane of South Nevada Street. The deputy observed the vehicle nearly hitting three parked vehicles that were parked facing south on Nevada Street.
The deputy made a traffic stop, where the vehicle continued driving for four city blocks before it came to a stop in the parking lot of 1000 South Nevada Street. The deputy spoke with the driver and could smell a strong odor of alcohol coming from the vehicle, the report states.
The deputy asked the man if he had anything to drink. The man said no. The officer asked the man for driver’s license, vehicle registration and proof of insurance. The man said his license was in his apartment and began to exit the vehicle to go into his apartment.
The deputy told him he was not free to leave the vehicle and to stay with the vehicle. The deputy observed a black wallet partially hanging out of his right front pocket of his jacket. The officer asked if that was his wallet and he said maybe and removed the wallet from the jacket. He handed the officer a Nevada identification card. While speaking to the man, the officer noticed his speech was heavily slurred, the report states.
The deputy asked again if he had anything to drink. The man said no. The officer explained the reason for the traffic stop and that they smelled alcohol from his person/vehicle. The deputy asked again if he had anything to drink. The man said, “not that much,” the report states.
The man agreed to field sobriety tests, refusing two of the tests and showing signs of impairment on one of the tests. He agreed to a preliminary breath test with a result of .130. He was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Initially the man refused to submit to an evidentiary breath or blood sample but changed his mind while driving to jail and agreed to a breath sample. He provided evidentiary breath samples of .105 and .105. Bail: $2,500.
— A 29-year-old Carson City woman was arrested early Monday for suspicion of DUI, speeding and failure to obey a traffic control device (red light).
According to the booking report, at around 12:32 a.m., a deputy observed a vehicle driving north on Stewart Street at a high rate of speed. The deputy got behind the vehicle, pacing it at 50 mph in a 35 mph speed zone, the report states. The officer then watched as the vehicle failed to come to a complete stop at the red light on East William from Stewart Street. The deputy activated their lights and the vehicle came to a stop in the 700 block of East William.
The deputy made contact with the driver and could smell an odor of alcohol when she spoke. The woman said she coming from a bar. The officer asked if she had anything to drink at the bar. She said no. The officer asked why she was driving so fast on Stewart Street and why she did not come to a stop at the stop light. She said she could not give a reason, the report states.
The deputy asked if she would agree to standardized field sobriety tests. The woman agreed. She declined to provide a breath sample. Based on her performance on the SFST’s, her driving pattern and visual clues, she was arrested for suspicion of DUI. She agreed to provide an evidentiary breath test. She provided samples of .154 and .135. Bail: $1,137.
— A 33-year-old Pahrump man, Alejandro Lopez Diego, was arrested early Monday for suspicion of possession of a controlled substance (suspected methamphetamine), a felony warrant out of Las Vegas and a misdemeanor warrant, also out of Las Vegas. Bail: $5,240.
— A 31-year-old Dayton man was arrested Friday for a misdemeanor violation of suspended sentence warrant issued Dec. 20, 2018 out of Carson City Justice Court. Bail: $3,000 cash.
— A 37-year-old Carson City woman was arrested Saturday for suspicion of domestic battery second offense and violation of a suspended sentence. Bail: $5,137.
— All information for the crime log (unless otherwise noted) comes from the arrest reports supplied by the Carson City Sheriff’s Office, and is considered by law to be public information. All subjects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The policy of Carson Now is to name anyone who is arrested for a felony offense.
