2 men arrested in Douglas County on gun charges

Two Vallejo residents were arrested Friday on weapons charges.

A resident in the 3700 block of Highway 50, which is about halfway between Spooner Summit and Carson Valley, reported hearing several rounds fired from a firearm. The resident also told Douglas County sheriff’s deputies she heard a couple noises outside the home which indicated bullets may have struck the house or ricocheted nearby.

At about 1:20 on July 20 deputies found two men had been shooting rifles, a third had been shooting a pellet gun, and the fourth had not been firing.

Deputies said the suspects had been shooting at trees and did not have a safe backdrop area behind their target; therefore several of the bullets that were discharged from the rifles continued into the nearby rural residential area.

The two males who had been shooting the rifles, 21-year-old Lance Caro and 20-year-old Daniel Dauz, were arrested on charges of discharging a firearm where a person might be endangered; a gross misdemeanor carrying a sentence of up to one year in jail. They were additionally charged with misdemeanor destruction of property.

The rifles used by Caro and Dauz, both medium caliber bolt-action rifles, were collected and booked as evidence.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report