The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team made two arrests on Thursday on suspicion felony drug and weapon charges.
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The Carson City Sheriff’s Office Special Enforcement Team made two arrests on Thursday on suspicion felony drug and weapon charges.
About 3 p.m. SET officers made contact with a suspicious U-Haul parked at the Carson City Nugget. Detectives were able to witness two people later identified as Chad Hooser, 36, and Maile Daugherty, 29, using narcotics inside the U-Haul which had a sunscreen placed over the windshield of the truck.
As Daugherty left the vehicle and walked toward the casino, SET contacted Hooser at the U-Haul and eventually conducted an open-air sniff of the vehicle's exterior with a K9, according to a press release from the Sheriff’s Office.
After the dog detected the presence of narcotics, SET detectives searched the vehicle and discovered a “ghost gun” firearm with no serial number, ammunition, body armor, and a suspected homemade silencer.
Chad Hooser
There also was a still-smoldering glass methamphetamine pipe, small amounts of suspected methamphetamine, fentanyl, drug paraphernalia, and a book on how to make homemade silencers discovered, the release said.
Hooser, an ex-felon, was arrested on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, possession of body armor by a prohibited person, possession/manufacturing of a silencer, possession of a firearm without a serial number, and possession of a controlled substance.
Daugherty was arrested on suspicion of possession of a controlled substance.
Maile Daugherty
Courtesy Carson City Sheriff's Office