A former Washoe County Sheriff's Office Sergeant was sentenced to 12 to 36 months on several charges including bigamy and forgery.
Dennis Carry was charged last year with two counts of burglary, one count of forgery, one count of bigamy, one count of unauthorized surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device, one count of offering false evidence, and one count of perjury.
He was sentenced to three years in prison with the possibility of parole after 12 months.
Carry previously pled guilty to forgery, bigamy and offering false evidence.
According to court documents from 2023, around May 2018 to March 2019, he was married to a woman in Nevada and, knowing that his wife was still alive, also married a woman in California.
He forged a counterfeit divorce decree showing that he had been divorced from his first wife when he was actually still married to her.
He also broke into the Washoe County Courthouse after hours, as well as the Washoe County Sheriff's Office. He was arrested in 2021 after his break into the Washoe County Courthouse to alter marriage documents was discovered.
During his trial in February and March of 2019, he provided the forged divorce decree as evidence, when it was actually false.
He was taken into custody immediately after sentencing and will receive credit for four days already served.
"Today’s sentencing of Dennis Carry is welcomed news," said Sheriff Darin Balaam. "Dennis used his position as a law enforcement officer, a position in which one is held to the highest standard, to con, cajole and abuse the power he had as a deputy. Not only did he violate the trust placed in him by the public, he violated the trust of his coworkers and those who loved him. I am hopeful today’s sentencing brings some closure to Dennis’ victims.”
