Charge Reported Dropped Against Storey County Top Official, While He Faces More Accusations Related to his Children and Former Wife
A person who wanted to remain unnamed, with knowledge of several legal proceedings involving Dayton resident Adam Wilson, the current Storey County Director of Emergency Management, is expressing outrage a previous charge against him filed on April 3rd of felony child abuse was then reported to be dropped.
A video from earlier in the day on April 3rd from his home seized through a search warrant, shown to Our Town Reno and used in custody court shows a man violently kicking one boy and then punching and possibly kicking another as they prepare to go to school with their backpacks on. The video shows the man from the back.
The two boys, identified as being 13 and 10, are then seen on a video from outside the home grimacing and holding body parts in discomfort followed by a man who hurries to a dark blue vehicle with a younger girl also getting in.
The older boy is reported to have then talked about the incident to law enforcement and to his principal at Virginia City Middle School, before he was transported to the hospital.
The Division of Child and Family Services was then notified, all three children were reported placed in the mother’s care under a present danger plan, and then the arrest took place.
This video was shown during a recent August 4th family custody hearing for the Wilsons, with the mother now trying to get sole legal custody of their three children.
Towards the end of those proceedings, Judge John Schlegalmich said there should be “no corporal punishment” going forward.
Bail was set at $75,000 after the early April arrest, with the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office saying it “takes all reports of child abuse seriously and remains committed to aggressively investigating these cases and holding offenders accountable.”
Our source says Wilson paid bond several days after his arrest and that the charge was dismissed in May.
We contacted the Lyon County District Attorney’s Office for confirmation as well as Wilson by email over the weekend for comments but have yet to receive a response from either.
Wilson’s position requires “ongoing professional collaboration with surrounding public safety agencies throughout the Quad County region, leading me to question whether an independent investigative agency should have been considered,” the person wrote Our Town Reno.
The person tells us the Wilsons have been divorced since last year.
The person also tells Our Town Reno the mother is the primary parent until mid August after which custody may go back to fifty fifty for the two younger children, while Wilson no longer has “any physical custody” of their oldest child according to their account.
There are also ongoing disputes over child support payments and previous allegations related to Wilson’s conduct toward the mother and children.
The person says there are disturbing audio recordings and official interviews of the children as well, among a list of materials which should be considered they said so that criminal proceedings resume against Wilson.
There was also a previous Temporary Protection Order which the person says was dissolved in June with a mutual no contact order put in place.
The person says an initial report of alleged abuse against Wilson was filed with the Carson City Sheriff’s Office this past Thanksgiving, and that it was forwarded to the Nevada Department of Investigation.
“This case was deconflicted by the Lyon County Sheriffs Office not the Lyon County District Attorneys Office,” a detective from the Investigative Division at Nevada State Police Jordan Heather wrote the mother in an email forwarded to us when she had raised concerns of wanting a fair and impartial review given Wilson’s local leadership position.
“Just because the Sheriffs Office believed they had a conflict does not mean there is a conflict at the District Attorneys Office and there is no evidence to suggest this matter can’t be handled fair and impartially by the Lyon County District Attorneys Office. Additionally, it would be there (sic) responsibility, if there was a conflict, to deconflict it after receiving my report. I don’t get to choose where to send it.
Since the allegations occurred in Lyon County, I am required to submit it to the Lyon County District Attorneys Office for review as it is their office that has jurisdiction over this matter,” the message from Heather indicated.
Our source says charges of perjury have also been submitted to the Lyon County District Attorney as of July 8th related to an affidavit signed by Wilson.
The person says the Division of Child and Family Services previously got involved in late February after a week the children spent with their dad with allegations of injuries to the children caused by Wilson’s conduct on the Friday evening. The person said that investigation was closed toward the end of March.
Wilson was previously in the news in 2017 while working as a UNR police officer for saying he could shoot a Black graduate student and former UNR football player Kevin McReynolds during a contentious traffic stop right by the university.
At that time, Wilson was put on administrative leave.
“I was reminded of the order in which my community sees me by Officer Adam Wilson who at a routine traffic stop laughingly told me “I’m just going to shoot him if this goes sideways because f*** that,” McReynolds wrote about that incident.
Wilson’s LinkedIn indicates he became Director of Emergency Management for Storey County in 2023, after ending his full time employment with the University Police Department in July 2023.
The person tells us he is still a Reserve Sergeant with UNRPD. We contacted UNR offices but have yet to receive a confirmation of that or any kind of statement from them either.
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