Carjacking suspect arrested in Truckee
Nathan Daniel Jones, 29, of Las Vegas was arrested Oct. 28 in Truckee on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, including two counts of attempted carjacking, felony battery, battery on a peace officer, resisting arrest, possession of an illegal weapon and possession of a pound of suspected marijuana.
A Truckee police officer was flagged down by a citizen Tuesday about 3:40pm who said someone was jumping on cars and breaking windows in the area of Bridge Street and Donner Pass Road. The officer drove to the area and interrupted an attempted carjacking in progress at the Beacon gas station. The officer said an adult male was trying to pull a female out of her car by her neck.
Nathan Daniel Jones
The officer got the suspect off of the victim and placed him into custody.
Officers said Jones appeared to be under the influence of a controlled substance and continued to act out violently after he was taken into custody.
Prior to this attempted carjacking, Jones allegedly attempted to enter another vehicle at the gas station occupied by a female adult. Officers said Jones broke out the driver’s side window before that victim was able to drive off. The victim female victim was not injured. Additionally, several parked cars nearby had windows broken and other vandalism.
The 29-year-old female victim from Truckee was treated for a minor neck injury and later released from Tahoe Forest Hospital.
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
Meth, not even once! Glad they got this loser off the streets.
This man should be held accountable. Addiction is a disease and does not absolve addicts from their responsibility for their own recovery and everything that entails. It’s not a free ride.
These are not my words but sum up how I feel …
Whatever our prejudices, the truth is, given the right circumstances (which can include factors like high stress, early drug exposure or childhood abuse, poor social support, or genetic predisposition), anyone can become a drug addict. Addiction is not just a disease of weak-willed losers. Indeed, many of our most important historical figures have been drug addicts—not only the creative, arty types like Charles Baudelaire (hashish and opium) and Aldous Huxley (alcohol, mescaline, LSD), but also scientists like Sigmund Freud (cocaine) and hard-charging military leaders and heads of state from Alexander the Great (a massive alcoholic) to Prince Otto von Bismarck (who typically drank two bottles of wine with lunch and topped it off with a little morphine in the evening).
Another tatted tweeker in jail. Good!! Too bad the meth didn’t get him first.
I wouldn’t liken this loser to any of those great people mentioned. Who get’s tats on their neck? Gang bangers, prison mopes, and this LOSER. His parents must be so proud of the thing they birthed. No loss to society here.
it’s well established that jean-paul sartre, john f and jacqueline kennedy, andy warhol, and adolf hitler were ‘tweekers’. that aside, i fully grok julie threewit’s post.
This crime spree neck tatted criminal was real close to killing someone obviously either directly or by running them over. The officer used great restraint in not taking him out when this debris was in the act of a violent felony crime and the officer had every right. This is about violent crime by a madman, not how people “feel” about the separate issues of addiction and wonderings about famous people thrown in. This is about a very violent criminal and who knows what he did before he arrived in Truckee.
I gotta say….if there ever was a reason for a police officer to put a cap in someone’s azz…this might qualify.
Baphomet,
Nice. How many people do you think get the reference to a book from 1961?
@Haddi-I am only an egg….
Hi Haddi T.
I got the grok…but I was in high school in ’61 and am a reader. Refreshing, to remember.
Cranky Gerald, Yes, I to remember “Stranger in a strange land” by Robert Heinlein. That book was quite popular when I was going to STHS in the late 60’s.
Thanks for the grok!!! OLS