CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $500,000 for a 19-year-old from El Salvador accused of possessing weapons and pawning property stolen from victims in four northern Nevada killings.
A prosecutor in Carson City characterized the case against Wilber Martinez-Guzman on Thursday as "not your run-of-the-mill property crime." Melanie Brantingham noted that most of the items Martinez-Guzman is accused of possessing and selling belonged to homicide victims.
Martinez-Guzman wasn't charged with murder and wasn't asked to enter a plea at his initial court appearance following his arrest last Saturday.
Prosecutors in Douglas and Washoe counties say they plan to file murder charges against Martinez-Guzman in the coming days.
Judge Thomas Armstrong set another court hearing Feb. 8 to determine if the Carson City case should proceed to trial on felony and misdemeanor burglary, stolen property and other charges.
Martinez-Guzman also faces felony allegations that because he's in the U.S. illegally he was prohibited from having 12 guns stolen from a Reno couple found dead Jan. 16.