Carson City men face charges after spraying windows with BBs during shooting spree

Two Carson City men face property destruction charges after allegedly shooting out 13 windows inside a building in the 2800 block of Arrowhead Drive that caused an estimated $5,200 in damage.

Eric Dean Larson, 23, faces a felony property destruction charge as well as being in the possession of a burglary tool, a gross misdemeanor. Garrett Wesley Blackwell, 20, faces a felony property destruction charge, a charge of discharging a firearm into a structure, also a felony, and a misdemeanor charge of discharging a firearm.

According to the arrest report, officers were dispatched to the 2800 block of Arrowhead Drive early Saturday morning in reference to a series of glass-break intrusion alarms going off.

When deputies arrived they found 13 different windows had been shot out with BBs from a gun. In all 28 BB holes were in windows throughout the building. Shortly after the alarm call Sheriff Ken Furlong was driving his unmarked vehicle and located three subjects parked suspiciously in the 3600 block of Centennial Drive, according to the arrest report.

Deputies Charles Stetler and Thomas McDonald responded to the location with Stetler observing a BB gun in the back seat of the parked vehicle. The subjects were questions with Blackwell and Larson denying involvement, the report stated. The third subject admitted and identified Blackwell as the shooter and he told the officer where the BB gun was located in the car that Blackwell used to shoot the windows out, the report stated.

Larson then admitted to being the driver of the car. The third subject was in the back seat and filled out a statement in regards to the incident as a witness. Both Blackwell and Larson were taken into custody for felony property destruction charges, among other charges.

During the inventory of the vehicle, authorities found a paint ball hand gun, paint ball rifle-style gun, a BB gun and a large amount of BBs and CO2 cartridges. Also found was a home made "slim jim" which is commonly used to open locked car doors, the report stated.

In other crime news:

— A Carson City man who left behind his footprints in the snow for officers to trace faces a felony vehicle burglary charge after admitting to breaking into vehicles.
Patrick David Wilson, 21, was taken to jail late Sunday and placed on $25,000 bail.
Wilson was reportedly observed along the streets of Panaca and Tangerine breaking into cars by lifting door handles, according to the arrest report.
Officers followed footprints in the snow stopping from car to car on Panaca and then east on Myles streets. The arresting officer then got to Panaca and Maple Creek and detained Wilson who admitted to breaking into vehicles, the arrest report stated. The man showed the officer a particular vehicle where he took several coins from a basket on the dash.
The vehicle owner confirmed that his vehicle was rummaged and that a basket on top of his dash was broken and laying in the snow.

— A Carson City man being held in the Carson City jail, faces a felony charge of being a prisoner in possession of a weapon.
Jail personnel on Sunday discovered a toothbrush that had been sharpened to a point on the floor of inmate Steven John White. Surveillance video shows the prison scratching his right wrist, an object and a toothbrush. The footage and photographs were booked into evidence.

— A Carson City liquor store clerk was arrested and faces a felony charge of possessing false identification and a misdemeanor charge of selling alcohol to a minor.
According to the arrest report, deputies sent a 20-year-old decoy to Sierra Wines in the 1400 block of East Williams Street. The decoy successfully purchased a six-pack of Budweiser.
Officers made contact with the clerk, Krishna Menon, 42, who reportedly was watching a movie on his laptop computer and failed to ask the minor for his ID or age, according to the arrest report.
Deputies asked Krishna for identification. He said he didn't have any ID but that he could tell the officers his name and birth date. Deputies then asked him if he had a wallet and the man said he did and showed the officer a wallet, opening it, where officers saw a U.S. Employment card. The man quickly closed the wallet and pulled out a Wells Fargo debit card instead. Officers asked to see the other forms of ID, and the man pulled out a faded fake Social Security card and the employment card, which was also a fake, the report stated. The man told officers he had bought the IDs in Los Angeles.

— A Stagecoach woman was arrested on Saturday and faces multiple drug charges.
Nichelle Marie Dabe, 22, was arrested and booked on possession of a controlled substance and possession of a prescription drug without a prescription, both felonies and misdemeanor charges of driving under the influence of drugs, speeding (65 mph in a 35 mph) and drug paraphernalia.
Officers pulled over the woman on Saturday at about 8:30 p.m. after she was clocked by radar going 65 mph in a 35 mph zone in icy road conditions on College Parkway, according to the arrest report.
The woman had red watery eyes and slurred speech but did not smell of alcohol. Dabe said she had taken medications for pain she identified as "Norco" and "morphine" both which can cause driving impairments, the report stated.
The woman told officers that she was a diabetic and that she is insulin dependent. Paramedics called to the scene tested her and found her blood sugar at a normal level, the report stated. The woman then agreed to submit to a series of field sobriety tests in which she failed. She was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence.
During inventory of the car, officers found several forms of drugs, packages of drugs, and drug paraphernalia including several hypodermic needles, plastic wrappers with heroin residue; 11 pieces of used foil with heroin residue; a meth pipe with burnt residue; a small balloon used to store heroin; a bag with five yellow pills, a bag with a white crystal substance, and assorted other pieces of drug paraphernalia.
The woman was read her Miranda rights an she agreed to speak with the officer. She told officers that the clear plastic bag was "meth" and the yellow pills were her prescription medication, hydrocodone.
The woman was taken to jail where two blood samples were taken.

— A Carson City man was arrested after he allegedly went on a drinking and prescription drug binge, slapping and strangling his wife.
Robert Daniel Hughes 56, faces a felony charge of domestic battery, strangulation, causing bodily harm. He is being held on $5,00 bail.
According to the arrest report, officers were dispatched to the 2700 block of Century Drive on Friday Nov. 19 at around 9 p.m. and met with the victim who said her husband had been drinking and was on prescription drugs for about three hours when he began to physically abuse her.
Hughes allegedly knocked the woman's glasses off of her face, shoved her into a bedroom door, slapped her in the face, slammed her head against a wall and again into a jewelry hanger causing a laceration to the back of her head, and then grabbed her by the throat, according to the arrest report.
The man said he didn't remember the incident. Officers observed the victim's injuries were consistent with her story, and Hughes was arrested. Once at jail he submitted to a preliminary breath test where he blew a .202.

— Those arrested are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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