A Tale of Two Scoundrels

Justice, Nevada-Style

In the fair and just hamlet of Incline Village, where the pine trees whisper secrets and good folks sip their morning coffee in peace, the long arm of the law has seen fit to scoop up two wayward fellows who forgot that their past misdeeds did not come with an expiration date.

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office teamed up with a whole alphabet soup of agencies—the U.S. Marshal Service Nevada Violent Offender Fugitive Task Force and Nevada Parole and Probation—to nab two registered sex offenders who had grown a little too comfortable skirting the rules.

First up, we have one Gurvinder Dosanjh, a man who, despite his troubles in Churchill County last August, figured he could take up honest work slinging hash in an Incline Village eatery without so much as a by-your-leave to the Sheriff’s Office. Detectives, being of a skeptical nature, observed him toiling away at the establishment until the fateful day of February 26, when he was lured into custody through that age-old Nevada pastime—getting pulled over for speeding. One might think that a man with the law breathing down his neck would tread a little lighter on the accelerator, but foresight is not every man’s gift.

Dosanjh, whose fondness for open and gross lewdness earned him a Tier 1 designation among the state’s least upstanding citizens, now finds himself in the Washoe County Detention Facility, facing charges for failing to follow sex offender registration laws, driving with an overzealous foot, and the ever-popular probation violation. His fate remains in the hands of those who take a keen interest in justice—or, at the very least, an appearance of it.

Not to be outdone, one Reginald Burns, a Tier 2 offender with a more expansive résumé of misdeeds, was found working at a local gas station the next day. Authorities claim he neglected to inform them of his gainful employment within the requisite 48 hours, a small but significant oversight for a man with a history of statutory sexual seduction and lewdness in the presence of a child. He, too, was rounded up and deposited into the Washoe County Detention Facility, where he and Dosanjh will await the dispensation of whatever justice Washoe County has on hand this season.

The keen observer may note that justice in these parts often carries a particular aroma that suggests it is not as blind as it is selectively nearsighted. The betting folk among us might be watching closely to see which of these two unfortunate souls will be the first to walk free, and if history is any guide, the smart money is on Dosanjh.

After all, nothing quite says “social justice” like letting the foreign-sounding fellow go first. Just ask Nevada’s ever-enlightened Attorney General, Aaron Ford, whose moral compass appears to spin in whatever direction the political winds blow.

And so, dear reader, we wait, watching the grand Nevada justice machine rumble forward, grinding some into dust while letting others slip conveniently through the cracks.