Carson City sheriff’s bookings: Two jailed in separate arrests involving guns

A Fallon man was arrested Thursday on multiple felony charges after a traffic stop in the area of Stanton and Woodside Drive, a Carson City sheriff’s deputy said.

Arrested was Michael Delucchi, 35. He was booked on charges of being in possession of a firearm by a person prohibited from having one, and having a firearm and drugs. He was also booked on a felony warrant that charged him with grand larceny, and misdemeanor possession of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and driving with a defective headlamp.

According to the arrest report, a Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team deputy was patrolling the area and conducted a traffic stop on a Cadillac sedan in which the left front headlight was not functioning.

The deputy informed the driver, Delucchi, as to why he was stopped and the suspect replied “yeah, I know the headlight is out. I just purchased the car,” the arrest report states. The suspect's license was checked through dispatch which advised he had a felony confirmed warrant in Churchill County and that there was an extended protection order that needed to be served on him.

The protection order stated he was in possession of a 9 mm handgun and an AR-15 rifle. Dispatched advised there was an officer safety precaution flag because Delucchi had previous violent tendencies toward law enforcement, resisting arrest and being in possession of handguns and a rifle.

Other patrol officers responded for the high risk stop. The man complied with commands and was taken into custody. During an inventory of the vehicle officers found an extended handgun magazine in the driver’s side map pocket next to marijuana that was in a plastic baggie, the arrest report states. A glass pipe was also found. An officer recovered the magazine that had nine bullet rounds. The handgun was located behind the front passenger seat in the rear map pocket and contained six bullets, the arrest report states.

A gang unit deputy on scene advised he had known the man through previous contacts and that he had been associated with gangs, the arrest report states. Delucchi was read his rights and said he wanted to speak with an attorney. At jail he was served with the extended domestic violence protection order. Bail: $46,946.

In other arrests:
A 34-year-old Carson City man, Geoffrey Lyle Walker, was arrested Thursday, 7:59 p.m. in the 3300 block of South Carson Street on felony suspicion of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and misdemeanor charges of being an ex-felon failing to register and discharging a firearm in the city limits.

According to the arrest report, deputies were called to an apartment building after a report that a bullet was shot through a floor from another apartment. The reporting resident told dispatch the bullet just missed she and her husband and stated she could see the smoke after it came through the ceiling wall. The husband told dispatch he thought someone upstairs may have been playing with a gun. He said he confronted the upstairs neighbor, Geoffrey Walker, who told him he accidentally shot the gun and asked him not to call the police, the arrest report states.

Officers could see a bullet hole coming down from the upstairs apartment into the victim’s apartment, then out the window, causing the window to break. Deputies read Walker his Miranda rights. Walker told deputies that he had found a bullet outside and was using a tool to try to take off the brass casing, when the bullet went off in his hand. The suspect did not have burn marks on his hands. The suspect then said he was an ex-felon and that there was a .22 caliber rifle under his couch in the living room.

Deputies submitted for a search warrant of the apartment and it was granted. Inside the residence officers found a .22 caliber rifle that was loaded and had one in the chamber, the arrest report states. The rifle was zip tied to the bottom of the couch. Also found was body armor, an additional magazine to another unknown gun and a rifle scope. Bail: $40,879.

— A 50-year-old Carson City woman, Laurie Anne Harris, was arrested Thursday, 8:30 a.m. on a felony warrant, possession of a controlled substance, issued March 29, 2016 out of Carson City Justice Court. Bail: $2,500.

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