3 stabbed at Stateline after New Year’s Eve party subsided
Ten people were arrested in the downtown casino core area of Stateline on New Year’s Eve. Charges included affray, assault, battery, domestic battery, disorderly conduct, trespassing, minor consuming alcohol and civil protective custody.
Sheriff’s investigators are also investigating a battery with a deadly weapon incident that occurred in the pre-dawn hours on New Year’s Day. The incident involved several male Hispanics who were involved in a brawl outside the casinos in Stateline. During the incident, three of the subjects were stabbed with a knife by one of the other combatants.
Two of the victims were transported to area hospitals for emergency medical care. The third victim refused medical treatment. Names of the involved parties are withheld pending investigation.
One person was arrested outside the casino core area for DUI.
The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office reports the crowd seemed no larger than in past years.
Highway 50 was closed to vehicle traffic at about 10pm to allow celebrants to flow into the roadway as they celebrated the coming of the New Year. The highway was reopened at approximately 1am after the crowd peacefully moved off the street and back into the casinos or other locales.
The Minden-Gardnerville area reported a similarly quiet evening; with one person arrested for domestic battery and one person arrested for minor consuming alcohol.
Go home ……….
Stabbings, fights, affray, assault, battery, domestic battery, disorderly conduct, trespassing, minor consuming alcohol and civil protective custody.
Who says the casinos do not attract trouble and social problems?
A great thought…make the New Years in Tahoe a fun, festive and family oriented affair (like what Heavenly Village attempted this year). Reno and Vegas have fireworks, we just have drunk young adults in the streets to see how stupid they can be! We don’t even have a ball drop! Focus on the Tahoe value and the crime element will go away.
The Heavenly rail jam starting at 2 pm was a family event. Unfortunately Tahoe has changed, most likely awhile before the area becomes much more palatable.
Stateline Casinos are not prepared for the New Years Eve chaos!
Our son was found at 6:50 am January 1st in the 15 floor stairwell with multiple head trauma, broken ribs, black eye and spinal injury and left for dead with now witnesses. He died later that morning at Washoe Medical Center.
Casinos need to have more security cameras in all of the stairwells and security needs to sweep the stairwells when the elevators are all so full that the stairwells become a freeway of drunk idiots.
Stateline Lake Tahoe is not a safe place to bring in the New Year
Mr. Marriner, we’re sorry for your loss. Someone knows what happened. Maybe they’ll see your note and speak up. Write to all the local papers. This is actually a pretty small town. If someone local did it, it might be exposed. God bless.