Two arrested, third sought in home invasion

Police arrested two and are seeking a third suspect in connection with a Saturday home invasion in Pahrump.

Carl Fort, 22 and Shaun Neubert, 20, both residents of Pahrump, were arrested Friday and face a number of felony charges related to invasion of the home, burglary, kidnapping and kidnapping with a deadly weapon on older person.

The third suspect, 40-year-old William Jones, remained at large on Tuesday.

On Monday, Justice of the Peace Ron Kent told Fort that he found probable cause for the cases to move forward, and set bail at $125,000 cash or bond. Neubert is being held on $67,000 bail.

The Nye County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call from the 80-year-old victim who reportedly told dispatch that two suspects entered his home through a window at approximately 1:30 a.m. and held him, his 75-year-old wife, and their 49-year-old disabled daughter at knifepoint while robbing them.

According to police, deputies and detectives learned that the suspects, later identified as Fort and Neubert, made entry into the home and found the victims asleep and assaulted them at knifepoint, eventually forcing the elderly male victim from one room into another room that held a safe. The male victim was reportedly forced to open the safe at knifepoint and give the cash and valuables to one of the suspects.

The second suspect continued to hold the two female victims at knifepoint and at one point, reportedly injured the disabled victim with his knife as she was attempting to get off the bed.

The three victims were subsequently tied up by the suspects and told not to call police before they fled the home.

On the afternoon of Feb. 28, Nye County Sheriff’s street crime deputies and detectives assigned to the drug interdiction task force conducted a routine traffic stop on a suspicious vehicle in Beatty. Deputies learned the vehicle was occupied by suspects Fort and Neubert.

During a search of the vehicle, deputies reportedly found a small amount of marijuana as well as a larger amount of the suspected stolen items and cash from the victim’s residence.

When detectives questioned Neubert, he reportedly admitted to being one of the suspects in the armed robbery and implicated Fort as his partner. Neubert also identified the third suspect, Jones, as the getaway driver of the home invasion and robbery.

Fort and Neubert were subsequently arrested and transported to the Nye County Detention Center and booked on charges of conspiracy to commit home invasion, home invasion with a deadly weapon on older/vulnerable person, conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary with a deadly weapon on older/vulnerable person, conspiracy to commit robbery, robbery with a deadly weapon on older/vulnerable person, assault with a deadly weapon on older/vulnerable person, grand larceny from older/vulnerable person, possession of stolen property, false imprisonment and kidnapping with a deadly weapon on older person.

Detectives subsequently obtained a search warrant for the residence that was allegedly shared by all three men in Pahrump and were able to locate additional evidence of the alleged crimes.

Anyone with information pertaining to this case is urged to contact the Nye County Sheriff’s Office at 775-751-7000 or sending a confidential email to ncso_detectives@co.nye.nv.us attention Detective Michael Eisenloffel.