Two Gilroy men were arrested in Nevada when Carson City police
officers conducting a traffic stop found three guns, four ski masks
and a roll of duct tape in their car.
Two Gilroy men were arrested in Nevada when Carson City police officers conducting a traffic stop found guns, ski masks and duct tape in their car.
What’s even more puzzling to Carson City police is that driver Tony Huicochea, 18, and his passenger, Jose Espinosa-Cavallero, 20, were driving a 1991 Ford Explorer registered to an address recently targeted in a spree of drive-by shootings, said Special Operations Officer Brian Humphrey.
“We’re not sure what the connection is at this point,” Humphrey said. “It does raise concern that the vehicle they were driving around in is registered to one of the victims in the shooting. The question is, why were these two people from Gilroy here in Carson City driving around with ski masks, guns and duct tape.”
The duo was pulled over about 2:45 p.m. April 9 for driving 40 miles per hour in a 25-mph zone on Arrowhead Drive in north Carson City, near an area that’s seen four separate non-fatal shootings within the last couple months, Humphrey said. When the vehicle’s registration came back to a victim of one of the recent drive-by shootings and a weapons search turned up three handguns, four black, full-faced ski masks, a roll of duct tape and extra ammunition, police arrested the men – Huicochea for various traffic violations and Espinosa-Cavallero for being an illegal alien and possession of a firearm – and impounded the vehicle, Humphrey said.
The two men said they were “just visiting friends in Carson City,” he said.
