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AS OF SEPTEMBER 12,2023, TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATIONS CANNOT BE REPORTED ONLINE.
TO REPORT A TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION, PLEASE CALL OUR NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER AT (775) 785-WCSO.
TO REPORT A TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION IN PROGRESS:  CALL 911

The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office online reporting system allows you to submit selected crimes, tips, or complaints immediately and print a copy of the report. Reports can be submitted from any private or public computer and is free of charge.

Filing a False Report is a crime.

The following reports are available for online reporting.

  • Select the report that is right for you.
  • Provide as much information as possible; this will help us in the review process. You may be contacted for additional information so be sure your contact information is correct.
  • Once you submit your report, you will receive the message “Your report has been submitted” and a Temporary Case Number will be displayed. You will have the option of printing the report.
  • You will receive an additional email with a copy of your report with the Permanent Case Number once the report has been approved.

Please be advised that your report may not be processed for up to 72 hours.

If you need further assistance, please call our Field Services desk at: (775) 328-3002

A team member should be available to answer your call Monday through Thursday from 7:00am-5:00pm.

Incident Type

Commercial Burglary

Person(s) enter your business or place of employment or any structure part of the business, such as a storage shed, trailer, etc. for the purpose of stealing property or committing assault or battery.

AS OF APRIL 5, 2021, ALL VEHICLE, RESIDENTIAL, AND COMMERCIAL BURGLARIES CANNOT BE REPORTED ONLINE.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY, PLEASE CALL OUR NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER AT (775) 785-WCSO.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY IN PROGRESS:  CALL 911


Destruction of Property

Your property has been altered or destroyed without your permission. This could include broken windows, damaged fences, building interiors, mailboxes or personal property. Use Graffiti to report damage caused by words or images applied to property with paint, markers, etching etc.

NRS 206.010 Destruction or damage of property by unlawful assembly.
  1. Whenever any persons unlawfully assembled pull down, damage or destroy any dwelling house or other building, or any shop, steamboat, vessel or other property, they severally are guilty of a public offense proportionate to the value of the property damaged or destroyed.

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Disturbing the Peace

Person(s) are willfully creating noise that is loud and unreasonable. It is not limited to certain hours of the day, however, does not include activities such as construction being performed during legal hours which may be loud, but is not unreasonable. If you feel that your peace is being disturbed by another in both a loud and unreasonable manner, you can submit a report for Disturbing the Peace. You may be asked to sign a citizen’s arrest before any legal action.

NRS 203.010 Breach of peace.
  1. Every person who shall maliciously and willfully disturb the peace or quiet of any neighborhood or person or family by loud or unusual noises, or by tumultuous and offensive conduct, threatening, traducing, quarreling, challenging to fight, or fighting, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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Graffiti

If you are the owner of the property or an agent for the owner of the property and the property has symbols and/or letters applied with paint, markers, etching etc. you can file a Graffiti report. If you are not the owner or agent, please CLICK HERE.

If you are NOT the owner/agent for the property you can report a Graffiti TIP, please CLICK HERE

For more information on Graffiti Reporting, please CLICK HERE

NRS 206.005 “Graffiti” defined.
  1. As used in this chapter, “graffiti” means any unauthorized inscription, word, figure or design that is marked, etched, scratched, drawn, painted on or affixed to the public or private property, real or personal, of another, which defaces the property.

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Harassing Phone Call/Phone Scam

Unwanted phone calls of an annoying, harassing or threatening nature. NO KNOWN SUSPECTS. For example: Caller makes repeated telephone calls to harass the person at the called number. Caller makes lewd, indecent, or obscene language over the telephone. Person does not speak, but breathes heavily into the phone. Person calls to voice a complaint over and over again.

NRS 201.255 Penalties.
  1. Any person who willfully makes a telephone call and addresses any obscene language, representation or suggestion to or about any person receiving such call or addresses to such other person any threat to inflict injury to the person or property of the person addressed or any member of the person’s family is guilty of a misdemeanor.
  2. Every person who makes a telephone call with intent to annoy another is, whether or not conversation ensues from making the telephone call, guilty of a misdemeanor.
  3. Any violation of subsections 1 and 2 is committed at the place at which the telephone call or calls were made and at the place where the telephone call or calls were received, and may be prosecuted at either place.

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Lost Property

Your property is lost or missing but is NOT believed to be stolen. For example, you left a camera at a lookout; you lost your cell phone at the mall etc.


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Residential Burglary

Person(s) enter your house, apartment, room, shed, stable, garage, or other structure to include house trailer, fifth wheels, motor homes etc. for the purpose of stealing property or committing assault or battery.

AS OF APRIL 5, 2021, ALL VEHICLE, RESIDENTIAL, AND COMMERCIAL BURGLARIES CANNOT BE REPORTED ONLINE.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY, PLEASE CALL OUR NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER AT (775) 785-WCSO.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY IN PROGRESS:  CALL 911



Suspicious Circumstances

You witnessed a suspicious activity, person or vehicle. For example, an unknown person is walking through yards and looking into windows.

A vehicle is parked near a bus stop and the driver is looking at children through binoculars.

If the crime is happening right now, please call the non-emergency Dispatch at 775-785-WCSO (9276)


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Theft

Your property is taken without your permission. For Example: The wallet from a purse or pocket is removed while watching a parade. A purse is removed from a shopping cart. An unattended purse in a restaurant is taken. Coins and paper money are removed from an outside vending machine. Statues or lights are taken from a yard. Water skis or life jackets are taken from a boat.

The system will code your report as Grand or Petit Larceny based on the cumulative value of the stolen property.

DO NOT USE FOR STOLEN FIREARMS OR STOLEN VEHICLES, INCLUDING OFF-ROAD VEHICLES, TRAILERS, BOATS - Discontinue online reporting and contact the Front Desk at 775-328-3001, Option 8. Use Burglary to report property stolen from a business, residence or vehicle.

NRS 205.240 Petit larceny
  1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 205.220, 205.226, 205.228 and 475.105, a person commits petit larceny if the person:
    1. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away or drives away:
      1. Personal goods or property, with a value of less than $650, owned by another person;
      2. Bedding, furniture or other property, with a value of less than $650, which the person, as a lodger, is to use in or with his or her lodging and which is owned by another person; or
      3. Real property, with a value of less than $650, that the person has converted into personal property by severing it from real property owned by another person.
    2. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away, drives away or entices away one or more domesticated animals or domesticated birds, with an aggregate value of less than $650, owned by another person.
NRS 205.220 Grand larceny: Definition. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 205.226 and 205.228, a person commits grand larceny if the person:
  1. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away or drives away:
    1. Personal goods or property, with a value of $650 or more, owned by another person;
    2. Bedding, furniture or other property, with a value of $650 or more, which the person, as a lodger, is to use in or with his or her lodging and which is owned by another person; or
    3. Real property, with a value of $650 or more, that the person has converted into personal property by severing it from real property owned by another person.
  2. Uses a card or other device for automatically withdrawing or transferring money in a financial institution to obtain intentionally money to which the person knows he or she is not entitled.
  3. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away, drives away or entices away:
    1. One or more head of livestock owned by another person; or
    2. One or more domesticated animals or domesticated birds, with an aggregate value of $650 or more, owned by another person.
  4. With the intent to defraud, steal, appropriate or prevent identification:
    1. Marks or brands, causes to be marked or branded, alters or defaces a mark or brand, or causes to be altered or defaced a mark or brand upon one or more head of livestock owned by another person;
    2. Sells or purchases the hide or carcass of one or more head of livestock owned by another person that has had a mark or brand cut out or obliterated;
    3. Kills one or more head of livestock owned by another person but running at large, whether or not the livestock is marked or branded; or
    4. Kills one or more domesticated animals or domesticated birds, with an aggregate value of $650 or more, owned by another person but running at large, whether or not the animals or birds are marked or branded.
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TPO/Protection Order Violation

You have a Temporary Protection Order and the adverse party has violated the conditions of the order. For example, the TPO states that the adverse party in the order may not contact the victim by telephone and the adverse party is calling the victim.

AS OF SEPTEMBER 12,2023, TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATIONS CANNOT BE REPORTED ONLINE.
TO REPORT A TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION, PLEASE CALL OUR NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER AT (775) 785-WCSO.
TO REPORT A TPO/PROTECTION ORDER VIOLATION IN PROGRESS:  CALL 911

Traffic Accident on Private Property

A non-injury traffic accident has occurred on private property or on a county roadway.  This report is for the benefit of the insurance carrier and will not have any follow-up investigation. Be sure to be as detailed as possible.

For example: Your car is damaged in a parking lot, such as in a shopping center where nobody was injured.  Your car is damaged on a county roadway or intersection and nobody was injured.

This should not be used to report a hit and run.


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Trespassing

Person(s) enter your business, home or property after being told not to be there or to cause a disturbance.

NRS 207.200 Unlawful trespass upon land; warning against trespassing.
  1. Unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 200.603, any person who, under circumstances not amounting to a burglary:
    1. Goes upon the land or into any building of another with intent to vex or annoy the owner or occupant thereof, or to commit any unlawful act; or
    2. Willfully goes or remains upon any land or in any building after having been warned by the owner or occupant thereof not to trespass,
  2. is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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Vandalism (same as Destruction of Property)

Your property has been altered or destroyed without your permission. This could include broken windows, damaged fences, building interiors, mailboxes or personal property. Use Graffiti to report damage caused by words or images applied to property with paint, markers, etching etc.

NRS 206.010 Destruction or damage of property by unlawful assembly.
  1. Whenever any persons unlawfully assembled pull down, damage or destroy any dwelling house or other building, or any shop, steamboat, vessel or other property, they severally are guilty of a public offense proportionate to the value of the property damaged or destroyed.

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Vehicle Burglary

Person(s) enter your vehicle, plane, trailer, boat or other conveyance for the purpose of stealing property or committing assault or battery. Not to be used if the entire vehicle was stolen.

AS OF APRIL 5, 2021, ALL VEHICLE, RESIDENTIAL, AND COMMERCIAL BURGLARIES CANNOT BE REPORTED ONLINE.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY, PLEASE CALL OUR NON-EMERGENCY DISPATCH CENTER AT (775) 785-WCSO.

TO REPORT A BURGLARY IN PROGRESS:  CALL 911



Vehicle Tampering

Tampering with a Motor vehicle that does not qualify as a Vehicle Burglary. For example, your vehicle was scratched (keyed) or a part of your vehicle was damaged, such as a broken window, but nothing was stolen.

NRS 205.274 Injuring or tampering with vehicle; penalties.
  1. Any person who shall individually or in association with one or more other persons willfully break, injure, tamper with or remove any part or parts of any vehicle for the purpose of injuring, defacing or destroying such vehicle, or temporarily or permanently preventing its useful operation, or for any purpose against the will or without the consent of the owner of such vehicle, or who shall in any manner willfully or maliciously interfere with or prevent the running or operation of such vehicle, shall be guilty of a public offense proportionate to the value of the loss resulting therefrom.
  2. Any person who shall without the consent of the owner or person in charge of a vehicle climb into or upon such vehicle with the intent to commit any crime, malicious mischief, or injury thereto, or who while a vehicle is at rest and unattended shall attempt to manipulate any of the levers, starting crank or other starting device, brakes or other mechanism thereof, or to set such vehicle in motion, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; but the foregoing provisions shall not apply when any such act is done in an emergency in furtherance of public safety or convenience or by or under the direction of an officer in the regulation of traffic or performance of any other official duty.

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Drug Tips

If you have information regarding person(s) using, selling or distributing drugs. These would include but are not limited to multiple vehicles visiting a residence for short periods of time at all hours of the day and/or night, or witnessing persons selling items thought to be drugs at public parks, street corners etc. You may enter any and all information you have, including license plates and suspect description in the description field.


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Homeland Security Tips

Use if you have information regarding person(s) involved in threatening activities that may concern Homeland Security. These would include but are not limited to suspicious activity near public buildings such as individuals taking numerous photographs or asking unusual questions about a power station. Use this to report any activity or person that appears to be out of the norm or posing a possible threat.


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Traffic Complaints

You live on a residential street in the unincorporated area of Washoe County and cars are speeding past your house on a regular basis and/or not stopping at designated stop signs.

You have commercial trucks using your street as a truck route (not to be confused with trucks making deliveries.)


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Barking Dog

For a barking dog complaint, please call the non-emergency dispatch at 322-DOGS (3647).

Secret Witness Tips

Use the link below to make an ANONYMOUS REPORT if you have seen a crime, or have information related to a crime. Upon submitting your information, you will be given a report number. The report number is required to claim your reward if your information helps solve the case.


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Illegal Dumping Tips/Complaints

Disposing of grass clippings, shrubs, and household goods on public or private lands is ILLEGAL. Violators may be subject to a $1,000 fine and/or six months in jail. The Washoe County Sheriff's Office, Washoe County Health District, U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management conduct routine surveillance to apprehend any illegal dumpers.

NRS 444.630 Prohibited acts; criminal penalty; clean up of dump site; community service; timing of commencement of clean up; proof of lawful disposal; revocation of business license; identification of violator; persons required to enforce provisions; issuance of citation; request for and provision of information.

  1. A person who places, deposits or dumps, or who causes to be placed, deposited or dumped, or who causes or allows to overflow, any sewage, sludge, cesspool or septic tank effluent, or accumulation of human excreta, or any solid waste, in or upon any street, alley, public highway or road in common use, or upon any public park or other public property other than property designated or set aside for such a purpose by the governing body having charge thereof, or upon any private property, is guilty of:
    1. For a first offense within the immediately preceding 2 years, a misdemeanor.
    2. For a second offense within the immediately preceding 2 years, a gross misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 14 days but not more than 1 year.
    3. For a third or subsequent offense within the immediately preceding 2 years, a gross misdemeanor and shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for 1 year.

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Credit/Debit Card Theft/Use

Your credit or debit card has been taken or used without your permission.

NRS 205.760 Fraudulent use of credit card or debit card, or identifying description of credit account or debit card; presumption of knowledge of revocation of credit card or debit card.
    1. Unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 205.222 for a violation of subsection 2 of NRS 205.220, a person who, with the intent to defraud:
      1. Uses a credit card or debit card to obtain money, goods, property, services or anything of value where the credit card or debit card was obtained or retained in violation of NRS 205.690 to 205.750, inclusive, or where the person knows the credit card or debit card is forged or is the expired or revoked credit card or debit card of another;
      2. Uses the number or other identifying physical or electronic description of a credit account, customarily evidenced by a credit card or the number or other identifying physical or electronic description of a debit card, to obtain money, goods, property, services or anything of value without the consent of the cardholder; or
      3. Obtains money, goods, property, services or anything else of value by representing, without the consent of the cardholder, that the person is the authorized holder of a specified card or that the person is the holder of a card where the card has not in fact been issued,

    1. is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

  1. Unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 205.222 for a violation of subsection 2 of NRS 205.220, a person who, with the intent to defraud, uses a credit card or debit card to obtain money, goods, property, services or anything of value where the credit card or debit card was issued in his or her name and which the person knows is revoked or expired, or when the person knows he or she does not have sufficient money or property with which to pay for the extension of credit or to cover the debit from the account linked to his or her debit card, shall be punished, where the amount of money or the value of the goods, property, services or other things of value so obtained in any 6-month period is:
    1. One hundred dollars or more, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.
    2. Less than $100, for a misdemeanor.
  2. A person is presumed to have knowledge of the revocation of a credit card or debit card 4 days after notice of the revocation has been mailed to the person by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, at the address set forth on the credit card or debit card or at the person’s last known address. If the address is more than 500 miles from the place of mailing, notice must be sent by airmail. If the address is located outside the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, the Canal Zone and Canada, notice may be presumed to have been received 10 days after the mailing.

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ID Theft

NRS 205.463 Obtaining and using personal identifying information of another person to harm or impersonate person, to obtain certain nonpublic records or for other unlawful purpose; penalties; rebuttable inference that possessor of personal identifying information intended to unlawfully use such information.
    1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, a person who knowingly:
      1. Obtains any personal identifying information of another person; and
      2. With the intent to commit an unlawful act, uses the personal identifying information:
        1. To harm that other person;
        2. To represent or impersonate that other person to obtain access to any personal identifying information of that other person without the prior express consent of that other person;
        3. To obtain access to any nonpublic record of the actions taken, communications made or received by, or other activities or transactions of that other person without the prior express consent of that other person; or
        4. For any other unlawful purpose, including, without limitation, to obtain credit, a good, a service or anything of value in the name of that other person,

    1. is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $100,000.

    1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a person who knowingly:
      1. Obtains any personal identifying information of another person; and
      2. Uses the personal identifying information to avoid or delay being prosecuted for an unlawful act,

    1. is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

    1. A person who violates:
      1. Subsection 1 or 2 by obtaining and using the personal identifying information of an older person or a vulnerable person;
      2. Subsection 1 or 2 by obtaining and using the personal identifying information of five or more persons;
      3. Subsection 1 or 2 by causing another person to suffer a financial loss or injury of $3,000 or more as a result of the violation; or
      4. Subsection 2 to avoid or delay being prosecuted for an unlawful act that is punishable as a category A felony or category B felony,

    1. is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 3 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $100,000.

  1. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order a person convicted of violating subsection 1 to pay restitution, including, without limitation, any attorney’s fees and costs incurred to:
    1. Repair the credit history or rating of the person whose personal identifying information the convicted person obtained and used in violation of subsection 1; and
    2. Satisfy a debt, lien or other obligation incurred by the person whose personal identifying information the convicted person obtained and used in violation of subsection 1.
  2. Proof of possession of the personal identifying information of five or more persons in a manner not set forth in NRS 205.4655 permits a rebuttable inference that the possessor intended to use such information in violation of this section.

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