Inmate walk away found at Lake Tahoe casino, returns to Carson City
UPDATE 6:53PM: Inmate Steven Gant is in custody and headed back to Northern Nevada Correctional Center. He was apprehended at the Hyatt casino in Incline Village, said Brooke Keast, spokeswoman for the Nevada Department of Corrections.
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The Nevada Department of Corrections reports a 30-year-old minimum security inmate walked away from forest work detail Tuesday near Lake Tahoe.
Steven Timothy Gant left the work detail in the forest north of Lake Tahoe near Incline Village. He has been housed at the Stewart Conservation Camp located in South Carson City and was out on a work detail with Nevada Division of Forestry.
Inmate Gant arrived at NDOC from Washoe County, June 16, 2017. He is serving 2 to 9 years for burglary and grand larceny of a motor vehicle. He was last seen Tuesday afternoon while completing hazardous fuel reduction in the forest north of Lake Tahoe. He was wearing blue jeans, a white tee and blue button down shirt with black boots.
Gant is 6 feet 1 inches tall, 165 lbs, blue eyes, brown hair with a fair complexion. A retake warrant has been issued. Staff from NDOC, NDF, the Inspector General’s Office and Washoe County Sheriff’s Office are assisting in the search.
Anyone with information on whereabouts of Steven Timothy Gant, please contact 911 or their local law enforcement agency.
NDOC partners with the Nevada Division of Forestry to run 9 Conservation Camps in the state. The camps are for minimum security inmates who are scheduled to be released within two years. Inmates in the camps are trained to fight wildland fires and are deployed to handle weed abatement, highway clean-up and other jobs when in the off season.
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