RENO, Nev. – A Carson City man made his initial appearance
today in federal court on charges related to kidnapping and assaulting a woman
after holding her hostage during a 12-hour armed standoff with law enforcement
on the Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, announced U.S. Attorney Dayle Elieson
of the District of Nevada.
Rocky Neil Boice Jr., 39, was indicted with one count of
kidnapping, one count of use of a firearm during and in relation to a crime of
violence, one count of felon in possession of a firearm, and two counts of
assault with a dangerous weapon. He appeared in federal court today before U.S.
District Magistrate Judge Valerie P. Cooke.
According to allegations contained in the indictment and
criminal complaint, on February 26, 2018, in Wadsworth, Nevada, Boice
threatened two women with a knife and he stabbed one of the women in the face
and abdomen. The second woman ran to a neighbor’s house to call for help.
During an armed 12-hour standoff with law enforcement, Boice pointed a .22
caliber rifle multiple times at the hostage and shot her in the shoulder and
head. He was arrested the next morning by law enforcement after the Washoe County
SWAT team entered the home. Boice was convicted in 2002 of second degree murder
and battery with a deadly weapon in Carson City.
If convicted, the statutory minimum penalty is life in
prison for the kidnapping charge.
An indictment merely contains an allegation, and a defendant
is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court
of law.
The investigation was conducted by the FBI, the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and the Pyramid Lake Tribal Police Department, with the
assistance of the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office and the Sparks Police
Department. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Shannon M.
Bryant.
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