While Glen Arthur Mead of Currie sits in the Elko County Jail on a misdemeanor arrest warrant his problem with the law could become much worse than meeting the $1830 bail.
In a press release Tuesday the Elko County Sheriff’s Office reported that it is Mead’s role in a fatal shooting Sunday night in a camper trailer in Currie.
According to Sheriff’s detective Cpl. James Carpenter, deputies were dispatched at 10:30 p.m. to a trailer owned by Mead, 59, of Ely on a report of a domestic disturbance.
When they arrived deputies found a 24-year-old man, lying dead on the floor in the rear of the camper. He had been shot several times.
Mead was booked Monday morning into the Elko County Jail on an unrelated misdemeanor warrant out of Ely Justice Court. His bail is $1,830. He was still in custody Tuesday morning.
Carpenter stated detectives are investigating the circumstances of the shooting. The Elko County District Attorney’s Office will be consulted regarding possible charges.
The name of the deceased is not being released until his next of kin has been notified.
According to Elko Sheriff Jim Pitts the incident began with a fight at a labor day barbecue and escalated.
A former work camp of the Nevada Department of Transportation the Currie Station located between Wells and Ely on US 93 was closed about 15 years ago and has since become a kind of a hole-in-wall with isolation its number one draw for prospective residents.
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