E-bike theft case nets first guilty plea

One of four men arrested in the e-bike theft caper pleaded guilty on July 30 to attempted burglary of a business.

Angel Ruiz-Arroyo, 26, from San Pablo, Calif., admitted through an interpreter that he went into a store on May 26 and rode an e-bike out without paying. He then waited for a while and did it again.

Deputies identified several suspects driving a white Dodge panel van. The suspects were eventually located at Walmart, in Gardnerville. Deputies recovered four e-bikes, valued at approximately $5,900.

Of the four, only Ruiz-Arroyo and 31-year-old San Pablo resident Emmanuel Villagomez-Morales are currently in custody.

Ruiz-Arroyo faces 1-4 years in prison and a $5,000 fine when he is sentenced on Sept. 10.

• A woman who violated her probation for drug possession by not attending the treatment she was ordered to do will have to do five months in Douglas County Jail.

Heather Jean Thomas-Cocores had been given probation after she admitted possession of 1.25 grams of methamphetamine when she was arrested on May 11, 2023.

Once she has completed her jail sentence, Thomas-Cocores’ probation will be completed.

• A man who admitted possession of 4 grams of methamphetamine received a suspended 12-30-month sentence.

Christopher Joseph Littlebeaver, 22, faces a federal probation violation in connection with a previous offense, both the defense and prosecution agreed.

Littlebeaver was convicted of sexual abuse of a minor age 12-16 in Nebraska on Sept. 24, 2018, in U.S. District Court.

• A woman who failed her diversion received a 12-30 month suspended sentence and 150 days in jail.

Mercedes Emily Mose, 32, allegedly ran up $275 in charges on Jan. 23, 2020.

Mose probation will be terminated after the jail sentence is complete.

• A prison inmate admitted to one count of burglary of a motor vehicle.

Carlos Nicholas Delcastillo, 41, is serving 1-4 years in prison on a charge of obtaining personal identifying information of another from Carson City.

He faces another 1-4 years and a $5,000 fine at sentencing on Sept. 17 in connection with the May 5, 2022, break-in of a Toyota Highlander.