R-C Evening Report

- A California real estate salesman was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison for drug trafficking in the largest cocaine seizure in Carson Valley history.

Juan Carlos Medina, 34, of West Covina, must serve a minimum of five years before he is eligible for parole. He agreed to forfeit the vehicle he was driving when he was arrested in April with nearly 5 pounds of cocaine in the trunk of his car.

- District Judge Dave Gamble opened his courtroom Saturday for a joyous occasion. Two children were adopted to coincide with National Adoption Day.

Seven-month-old Emma Jane was formally adopted by Brandt and Kathleen Halling of Fallon and 2-year-old Monique Catherine was adopted by Oliver and Sherry Knackstedt of Silver Springs.

- A former casino 21 dealer who served on the committee that tallies dealers' tokes pleaded guilty Monday to taking $10,000 from her co-workers.

Michele D. Michaels said she could pay back the money she admitted taking over a six-month period from February through her arrest in August.

- A South Lake Tahoe man who admitted selling methamphetamine to a confidential informant three times was sentenced Monday to probation and ordered to complete one year in Douglas County Jail. Robert W. Gienapp, 20, also must forfeit his mother's truck that he used in the transactions. He received a suspended three-three year sentence and was placed on three years probation.

- During this week of thanks, Carson Valley's Ted Nagel wanted to make sure to thank the community its outpouring of support in buying him a new electric wheelchair. Nagel was born a quadriplegic and has been in a wheelchair most of his life. He'd been in his old chair for nearly 13 years and the wear and tear from daily use had caused it to collapse on him twice in the last year.