Sheriff Ken Furlong

UPDATE 10:35AM: David Michael Grimes, 32, of Dayton is being held on $250,000 bail in Carson City Jail and faces a charge of murder after allegedly shooting James Lay, 32, outside of his Carson City home.

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UPDATE 10:44PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong confirms the victim in Sunday night's shooting outside a Carson City home has died. At approximately 8:35 p.m. Sunday night, the Carson City Sheriff’s Office responded to a report of a man shot at the 900 block of West Washington Street in Carson.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said today that detectives have confirmed the death of Desiree Bragg, 19. The young woman died late Wednesday afternoon at Renown Medical Center in Reno. An autopsy is being performed today at the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office. The full results of the autopsy report are not expected for approximately 4 weeks.

UPDATE 7:30PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong clarified Tuesday night that Desiree Bragg has not died as he was informed earlier today and shared with Carson Now. After speaking with family members late this afternoon Furlong said he learned that the woman's condition was 'unrecoverable' and family members are looking for organ donor arrangements.
Furlong said he apologizes for the miscommunication, saying he was erroneously informed that Bragg had died today. When Carson Now called to confirm the woman's passing after several Facebook posts suggesting Bragg had already been taken off life support, Furlong said he was informed earlier that she had indeed passed and regrets the error made in making the confirmation.

Here is a news release from the Carson City Sheriff's Office:

UPDATE JAN.29: Desiree Bragg, the woman who was chased and struck by a vehicle in a road rage incident on Saturday night in Carson City, has died.
Bragg was taken off life support Tuesday, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong confirmed. Friends on Facebook began posting messages on Carson Now. Furlong confirmed and said he and Carson City District Attorney Neil Rombardo were meeting and would make more information available later today.
Furlong said he believed Bragg was 19 years old but wasn't able to confirm her age at the time he spoke with Carson Now. He said he was alerted to her death while he was in a meeting.
The 27-year-old suspect, Leonardo Cardoza, will likely face murder charges.
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Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong released more details into Saturday night's road rage incident that sent a Carson City woman to the hospital with serious injuries. The suspect, Leonardo Cardoza, 27, was also flown to the hospital and was released Sunday morning and is now in the Carson City Jail facing multiple felony charges including battery with a deadly weapon, leaving the scene of an accident with injuries and DUI.

The following report is from Sheriff Furlong:

UPDATE JAN. 29: Desiree Bragg, the woman who was chased and struck by a vehicle in a road rage incident on Saturday night in Carson City has died.
Bragg was taken off life support Tuesday, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong confirmed. Friends on Facebook began posting messages on Carson Now. Furlong confirmed and said he and Carson City District Attorney Neil Rombardo were meeting and would make more information available later today.

UPDATE 11:55PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said road rage is thought to be behind an incident Saturday night on Cinnabar near College Parkway that sent at least two to the hospital via CareFlight.
Two of those injured, include a woman who was hit by a vehicle in her driveway after being followed by a male driver. The woman, believed to be 19-years-old but not confirmed yet, was said to have "very severe" injuries. The other driver, a man, was said to have "severe" injuries. Both were flown to Renown Medical Center in Reno. Their conditions are unknown at this time.

Apparently the incident began before 9:30 p.m. off of Lompa and Highway 50 and involved a male driver following a female driver after some kind of altercation. Furlong said. It is unknown if the two knew each other, Furlong said, and investigators are trying to determine what relationship the two had, if any.
"Right now we are looking at it as being some sort of road rage incident," said Furlong.
The male driver apparently followed the female driver from Lompa and Highway 50, crossed the freeway and then followed her to her home where he struck her in the driveway, said Furlong. The man was injured after leaving the scene and crashing his vehicle.
"We really don't know why this happened," said Furlong.

UPDATE 10:19PM: At least two people were hit by a vehicle in the area of College Parkway and Cinnabar in Carson City at around 9:30 p.m. Saturday night. Two Care Flight helicopters transported two patients. One of those injured is said to be a man and a 19-year-old woman. One was reportedly pinned between a fence or a house. At least one of those injured was said to be bleeding from the mouth.

When Sheriff Ken Furlong and the new chief of the Nevada Highway Patrol, Troy Abney, had coffee last month, the sheriff shared with the chief a vision of more tightly integrated law enforcement in Carson City.

UPDATE 11PM: An investigation continued late Thursday night in the Carson City area shooting in which one man was hospitalized and his brother was taken into custody.
The FBI, Washoe Tribal Police and the Carson City Sheriff's Office remained at the scene of the shooting that happened at around 8:30 p.m. Thursday night in the 400 block of Oneida Street. The condition of the victim is unknown.
Detectives from the agencies wouldn't comment on the investigation. An FBI agent arrived at home at around 10 p.m. South Curry Street between Washoe and Oneida was opened shortly after 9 p.m.

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UPDATE 9:05PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong reports the shooting tonight on Oneida Street happened between two adult brothers where one brother was shot in the chest. The alleged shooter is in custody tonight and his brother was being transported to Renown Medical Center in Reno.

"At this point he is still alive and the brother who shot him is in custody," said Furlong.

The Carson City Sheriff's Office was called as an agency assist to Washoe Tribal Police, Furlong added.
Traffic along Curry Street remained blocked at Washoe and Shoshone as of 9 p.m.

UPDATE 3:50PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong provides an update regarding two suspects who remain at large after a burglary this morning in the 4700 block of Old Clear Creek Road.

UPDATE: Carson City authorities used tear gas to detain a man dressed in a black sweater who had barricaded himself inside a home near Silver Sage and Roventini Way.

John Vallerio, 22, was taken into custody at around 8:10 p.m. after a SWAT used tear gas to smoke him out of the house he had been holed up in for more than three hours, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. Vallerio had escaped authorities at 4:39 p.m. after he was about to be served arrest warrants from the Carson City Sheriff's Office.
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Tear gas, brought him out. Nobody hurt.

The Love our Pets Wine Tasting will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Governor's Mansion in Carson City.
The event is sponsored by the Carson Animal Service Initiative and will be emceed by Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. Tickets are $25 per person and can be purchased at:
Purple Avocado (www.thepurpleavocado.com/)
Artsy Fartsy (www.artsyfartsyartgallery.com/)

A 22-year-old Carson City man was stabbed and suffered a puncture to the lungs in a fight that happened at a New Year's Eve house party on Rex Circle late Monday night, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong reports.

The man, Adam Gaudette, was flown by Care Flight and was at last report in stable condition, said Furlong. Arrested was Leo Reyes Jacinto, 33, who faces a charge of battery with a deadly weapon. He is being held on $30,000 bail.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong knows the root of almost all the violence in his community. The presence of alcohol and drugs haunt the violent arrest reports.
“I want to see the simple assaults come down,” Furlong said. “They're alcohol (and drug) related.”

The Carson City Sheriff’s Office received an early Christmas present after being notified it has received national "Outstanding Citizen Participation” recognition for its 2012 National Night Out crime, drug and violence special prevention event held in August.

A Carson City couple face multiple felony burglary charges after authorities found thousands of stolen items valued more than $300,000 inside their home. The discovery, according to Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong, is likely the largest burglary ring foiled in at least 10 years.

Nine school violence prevention researchers and practitioners nationwide have developed a position statement released nationwide Wednesday regarding the Dec. 14 Connecticut school shootings.

The statement has been endorsed by more than 100 organizations representing more than 4 million professionals, including Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong. It is in response to the tragic acts of violence at Sandy Hook Elementary School and updates the School Shootings Position Statement released nationally following the school-related shootings of 2006.

Carson City authorities continue to investigate an early Tuesday morning shooting in which Justice Court Judge John Tatro's home was hit with gunfire.

A 911 call was made at 4:24 Tuesday morning where judge Tatro told dispatch that someone had fired shots into his home. When deputies arrived they were unable to locate any suspects but did find two bullet holes in the front door of the residence.

UPDATE 5PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong reports the investigation continues after this morning's discovery of two women found shot to death in Voltaire Canyon west of Carson City. A handgun was found nearby.
"We are not at this time looking for a third person," he said. The investigation is, so far, not being ruled a homicide or a murder suicide, he said. "We will wait for a ruling as the investigation continues," Furlong said.
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A house in the 300 block of Bath Street in Carson City is being searched by a bomb squad Tuesday night and four homes have been evacuated after an elderly man informed authorities that he remembered having stored up to a case of dynamite in the walls of the home sometime between the 1950s and 1960s.

An initial search of the home at 306 Bath Street, about 300 yards from Fritsch Elementary school and at the intersection of Division, has indeed led to the discovery of four sticks of dynamite that were found in the garage of the home buried inside walls, Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said.

A search for more dynamite will continue through the night with a bomb squad on the scene from Tahoe Douglas Explosive Ordnance Disposal and a support bomb squad to arrive from Reno.

UPDATE 6:17PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong reports tonight that two suffered minor injuries after being hit by a vehicle. They were taken to Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center in Carson City. CareFlight had been called but canceled after it was determined the injuries were not life-threatening and were considered minor.

The following is from Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong: At approximately 9:08 a.m. Monday the Carson City Sheriff’s Office was informed of a bank robbery at the Wells Fargo Bank located at the corner of Stewart and Musser Streets in downtown Carson City. The suspect was described as a white male adult, approximately 30 years old, 5 foot 6 inches tall, wearing blue jeans and a black (or dark) hoody.

UPDATE 7:17PM: Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said the two suspects captured after this morning's Wells Fargo bank robbery may be tied to a Nevada State Bank robbery in Reno. The two men, Kenneth Wayne Young, 44, and Michael Lee Smith, 36, are leaving Carson City Jail and will be booked and arraigned in federal court.
The following is a statement from the Carson City Sheriff's Office regarding the robberies:

UPDATE 12:30AM: From Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong regarding Wednesday night's stabbing: At approximately 9:33 p.m. Wednesday the Carson City Sheriff’s Office was informed of a juvenile male, age 17, that had been stabbed during an altercation at the corner of Colorado and Arizona streets in south Carson City. Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics located the victim at a nearby residence with a severe wound to the stomach. The juvenile was transported by Care Flight to Renown Medical Center.

A 46-year-old Carson City man who had served time in prison for bank robbery, faces federal charges in connection with Monday's hold up of the U.S. Bank in North Carson City.
Thomas E. Baye was arrested Monday night after authorities found items in his home that directly associated him with the robbery, said Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong.

6:24PM UPDATE: With a secured warrant, Carson City authorities have begun to look through the vehicle and home occupied by a man detained and being questioned about the U.S. Bank robbery on Market Street at around 3:30 this afternoon. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said the man has not left the property, remains detained and is being questioned. The owner of the home, apparently the man's landlord, was also speaking with authorities.

Authorities are also said to be at the U.S. Bank site. Witnesses told authorities the man used a handgun in the robbery and left with money. An unconfirmed report via the police scanner early in the investigation was that the money was recovered near a trash bin.

Witnesses said the suspect was a white male, gray hair, in his 40s, wearing gloves and a hoodie.

UPDATE 5PM: Carson City authorities have detained a man and are now questioning him after a robbery this afternoon at the U.S. Bank on Market Street. Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong said that a vehicle description and license plate number were secured by witnesses to the robbery. The license came back to the home in the 1000 block of Washington street near Richmond.
The identification, after a wants and warrants search, came back to a man who had a previous conviction of armed robbery, said Furlong. The vehicle matching the description as the getaway truck was found inside the garage of the home and authorities obtained a search warrant to enter the home and the garage.

Update 4:30 p.m.: The suspect has been detained and is interviewed. A search warrant is being secured and deputies prepare to enter the house. Streets in the area remain blocked off.

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4:15: Carson Sheriff SWAT team on the scene at a residence at Washington near Richmond where they believe the suspect of this afternoon's bank robbery is holed up. A witness gave deputies a description and license number of the truck that was seen leaving the bank. Deputies then responded to the residence where the truck was registered, and saw the truck inside the garage.

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The U.S. Bank on Market Street in Carson City was robbed at 3:28 p.m., Monday. Authorities are responding to the bank, where the robber, described as a white male in his 40s, gray hair, wearing a hoodie and a mask, and rubber gloves robbed the bank of an undermined amount of money, using a handgun or possibly a semi-automatic weapon.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong says an 18-month old boy isn't expected to live after authorities were called Saturday about injuries the child had sustained.
The case is under investigation. The father of the child and the girlfriend of the father who was taking care of the child are cooperating with the investigation, Furlong said.

Carson City Sheriff Ken Furlong confirms his office is investigating the hospitalization of a toddler. Furlong says the boy is currently on life support but is not expected to survive.
Saturday evening just before 5:30, Sheriff's deputies and Fire Department personnel responded to a 911 call for a child who was breathing but not conscious. The child was at a home in the 2200 block of E. Long St. in Carson City.

The name of the motorcycle rider killed in a head-on crash in Carson City on Tuesday has been identified. Vincent Wayne Gilpatrick, 33, of Carson City, died from injuries in the crash, said Sheriff Ken Furlong. A juvenile driving a Jeep Cherokee was taken to the hospital. Gilpatrick was a former corrections guard. His family is from the Ely area.

UPDATE 5:30PM: A motorcycle and a vehicle reportedly collided this afternoon in Carson City, killing the motorcyclist. The accident was reported at around 4:50 p.m. at Camballeria Drive and Carson River Road. The accident victim, a man who has not yet been identified, was reported to be "not moving" and Care Flight was called.
The call was cancelled because the motorcyclist died from injuries, according to Carson City emergency personnel at the scene and confirmed by Sheriff Ken Furlong.

Carson City officers arrested five people on Saturday with two facing felony assault charges after a fight at the former Toads Bar in Carson City.

Officers responded to the bar in the 300 block of William Street at 10:22 p.m. where they observed two men dragging, kicking and punching a man near the front entrance. Arresting officers ordered the men involved in the melee to the ground, which they complied, according to the arrest report.