Two Nabbed in Storey County for Guns, Drugs, and Sundry Mischief

It was bright and early Thursday morning—about the time honest folk are sipping their coffee and the more adventurous are considering whether it’s too late to go to bed—when the Storey County Sheriff’s Office set about doing what it does best–rooting out trouble.

With the sun barely peeking over the hills, deputies descended upon 399 Wild Horse Canyon, deep in the heart of the sprawling Tahoe-Reno Industrial Complex, armed with a search warrant and, no doubt, a healthy measure of suspicion. What they unearthed would make a preacher cuss and a schoolmarm faint dead away–a stolen firearm, a bounty of methamphetamine, and enough drug paraphernalia to stock a fair-sized opium den.

At the center of this cornucopia of misdeeds were two characters by the names of Adrian Lockamy, aged 47, and Kaycee Weiss, aged 49. They got escorted to the Storey County Detention Facility, where the accommodations are less than luxurious.

Mr. Lockamy found himself saddled with an impressive collection of charges–two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms, possession of a stolen firearm, possession of controlled substances, failure to register as a felon–a small but telling oversight–and possession of drug paraphernalia. Ms. Weiss, not to be outdone, garnered her own matching set of accusations: two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms, a stolen firearm, controlled substances, and drug paraphernalia.

The most ordinary morning in Storey County can turn into a frontier drama quicker than a lizard can wink.