Carson City man arrested on multiple felony charges after attempting to run from deputies
A 33-year-old Carson City man was arrested on several felony charges after attempting to escape from deputies.
According to the arrest report, Duffy Thomas was arrested in the area of E. Park St. and N. Roop St. by Special Enforcement Team deputies attempting to arrest another individual on a warrant when they spotted a family member of Thomas’s.
Deputies asked the family member if Thomas was in their residence, because they’d received information he was there earlier in the day, according to the report.
The family member said that Thomas had not been at the house, nor was he in the house at that moment.
However, deputies walked around the back of the house and peered through the fence lands. They saw Thomas walk out of the residence and run to the back fence.
Deputies placed Thomas at gunpoint and told him to reveal his hands. Instead, Thomas looked at deputies, turned around, and ran back into the house.
In front of the house, deputies heard a loud thud near the garage door from the sidewalk. A moment later, the garage door “flew open” and Thomas exited the garage.
Once again, deputies told Thomas to show his hands while at gunpoint. Thomas began to run directly at one of the deputies, and due to Thomas’s history of violence with deputies, the deputy holstered his gun and pulled out his taser.
However, when deploying the taser, only one dart entered Thomas’s skin, while the other lodged in his sweatshirt, causing the taser to be rendered useless.
The deputy threw his taser to the ground, and deputies began chasing Thomas eastbound on Park St. Deputies caught up to Thomas, grabbed his sweatshirt, and threw him to the ground.
Thomas curled up into a ball and refused to give up his hands. Deputies struggled with Thomas to get his arms behind his back, and were finally able to handcuff him.
On a search of his person, deputies located a lighter and a glass pipe consistent with methamphetamine use. Later, a NARTEC test would confirm the presence of methamphetamine.
Thomas was taken to the jail and booked for a Priority 5 DONS warrant out of Lyon County, possession of methamphetamine, possession of drug paraphernalia, obstructing, and resisting an officer.
No bail.
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