Robert Michael Hernandez was returned to Douglas County last week to answer charges from an incident last year involving a Washoe Tribal Police cruiser.
Hernandez, 21, is in custody in Douglas County Jail on $100,000 bail. He is to appear Jan. 16 in East Fork Justice Court on felony charges of eluding and assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer.
He was returned to Douglas County Jail on Friday from California State Prison in Avenal, Calif., where he was serving a 16-month sentence on separate charges.
Hernandez was accused of driving a vehicle that rammed a tribal police cruiser on March 12, 2007, following an early morning chase from the Stewart Indian Colony to Indian Hills.
Passenger Fidel Fuentes, 25, was accused of tossing a stolen handgun from the car before he and Hernandez fled the scene.
Fuentes was arrested later that day when deputies found him in a backyard in the neighborhood where the altercation took place.
The weapon, reported missing by a Carson City resident, was found on a nearby cul-de-sac.
Hernandez was arrested April 29, 2007, in Palm Springs, Calif., on several new charges and the Douglas County arrest warrant. He was sentenced in California to 16 months. He is the stepson of Carson City Mayor Marv Teixeira.
Fuentes was sentenced in October to a year in Douglas County Jail. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possess stolen property, a gross misdemeanor.
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