A 54-year-old Carson City inmate, Allen White, was ad-booked for the crime of felony battery by a prisoner with substantial bodily harm after allegedly punching another inmate in the face over an argument relating to a breakfast treat.
According to the arrest report, a deputy was distributing medication within the jail at around 11:30 a.m. when they were instructed to check on the special needs pod for someone yelling.
The deputy went to the special needs pod and witnessed White yelling. They asked White why he was yelling, and he said it was something happening on the television. The deputy told him to stop yelling, and White did so, then went back into his cell.
As the deputy was about to leave the pod, another inmate began banging on his cell door. The deputy went to check on him and saw that his mouth was bloody, and he was spitting blood into the toilet. The deputy asked what happened, and the inmate said White had just punched him in the face.
Deputies went to speak with White who was washing his hands in a sink, and the deputy noted there was blood in the water. The deputy asked White what happened, and he said that he and the inmate had been in an argument over “sugar brick,” which the report states is inmate slang or breakfast coffee cake.
White advised that the inmate owed him sugar brick, because the inmate had told him last week he promised he would give him some. He said the inmate called White a “bitch,” and so White “busted [the inmate] in the mouth.” The deputy noted that White was “very irritated,” and his “tone was close to yelling” during the interview.
The deputies spoke to the inmate who denied provoking White, and said White had been demanding that he owed him “sugar brick.” He said he never promised White any coffee cake, but said White could have come to the conclusion because the inmate often shares his food with other people, according to the report.
The inmate was transferred to the hospital, and later it was determined he suffered a traumatic injury of the mouth, dental trauma, laceration of the mouth, and closed head injury according to the report. One of his teeth had penetrated through the skin on the left side of his lower lip and required a stitch to close the skin laceration. One of his teeth was loosened and may need to be removed, and another tooth was chipped.
White was ad-booked for battery by a prisoner with substantial bodily harm with an additional bail amount of $20,000.
Bail: $20,000
In other reports:
A 51-year-old Carson City man already in custody was ad-booked on a failure to appear warrant issued out of Carson City District Court on February 2, 2026. The warrant was issued without bail.
A 36-year-old Reno woman was arrested on a warrant issued out of Justice Court of Dayton Township on January 21, 2026 for criminal contempt with a cash-only bail amount of $1,025.
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