CRIME & SAFETY

This week in Nevada County, California, two incidents occurred that impacted safety in the area. The first incident involved a crash on westbound I-80 in Truckee, which resulted in a diesel spill and the closure of all lanes for a brief period. The second incident involved a burglary at Nevada Union High School in Grass Valley, where an Auburn man was arrested after being spotted by a school custodian. These incidents will be further summarized below.

SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. (FOX26) — A man was finally arrested this afternoon in Squaw Valley after police spent hours searching for him. According to Fresno County Sheriff’s Department, 35-year-old Charles Sneed was combating his arrest after being caught trespassing. Around 9 a.m. Wednesday, Sneed tried to steal the...

SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A man who deputies say fled from them in Squaw Valley has been located and taken into custody after he was on the run for several hours Wednesday afternoon, according to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office. A witness who was in the area and captured the initial confrontation on his […]

STATELINE, Nev. – A 2019 drug deal that occurred in Stateline came back to haunt a Sacramento man who dodged a warrant for failing to turn up at court for the last four years. Jean Claude Rocha, 41, was the bag man in a cocaine sale that occurred right...

He had succumbed to cardiac arrest by the time first responders got on scene. A man died after falling off his mountain bike in Kings Canyon in Carson City on Sunday afternoon. He had succumbed to cardiac arrest by the time authorities got on scene.

Open pile burning is underway in the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District (TMFPD) for December. As a result, the Fire District is responding to an increase in structure fire reports, but in the past few days numerous reports turned out to be pile burning. Pile burning refers to the burning...

CARSON CITY, Nev (KRNV) — One firefighter is injured after a garage in West Carson City became engulfed in flames. On Friday, December 1 at approximately 11:00 a.m., Carson City Fire Department responded to a house fire in West Carson City. Upon arriving at the scene, firefighters found a...

A 19-year-old Reno man, who prompted the evacuation of a Lake Tahoe beach on July 15 after drawing a firearm and putting it in a woman’s face, received 180 days in jail as a condition of probation on Tuesday. Mahkai Taham Gonzales was remanded into custody after his sentencing...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (KOLO) - The Carson City Sheriff’s Office is looking for a missing man. They say that Rodney Smith was reported missing to their office on Nov. 17. Smith’s family reported him missing and are concerned about his safety. He was last seen around the 2000...

ROSEVILLE, Calif. — The man and woman charged in the 2021 murder and attempted murder of a Lake Tahoe-area couple appeared in court together in Roseville on Monday. Former Major League Baseball Pitcher Dan Serafini and his friend, Samantha Scott, are accused in the shooting on June 5, 2021, that left 70-year-old Robert Gary Spohr dead and his wife, 68-year-old Wendy Wood, gravely wounded.

Residents in the towns around Lake Tahoe are fortunate enough to enjoy a relatively low crime rate. Though there is the occasional felony crime, most of the area police departments agree they’re well prepared to manage the region’s relatively peaceful roads, towns, and communities. Until winter hits, that...