Nye Deputies Respond After Leo Marchetti Trespassed From Multiple Pahrump Stores

Deputies in Nye County answered a dispatch just after 9 a.m. on Feb. 21, 2026, reporting a person who had been trespassed from multiple commercial properties along the Gulf Circle/Highway 160 corridor, according to a CrimeRadar summary of dispatch audio. The dispatch summary specifically says deputies responded to reports that the person “had been trespassed from multiple commercial properties” and that the call was logged just after 9 a.m.

The Pahrump Valley Times identified a Pahrump man involved in a separate, early-August trespass at Smith’s Food and Drug Store as Leo Marchetti. PVT’s excerpt says Marchetti entered Smith’s on Aug. 4 to make several purchases and that at least two employees at the entrance requested he wear a mask before shopping. The resulting exchange escalated into a dispute over Marchetti’s claim of a medical exemption; Marchetti is quoted saying, “They said you had to have a mask, and I said medical reason,” and, “They said you still have to have a mask, and I’m like, that’s not legal, so I started to go around to get stuff, and another one of their employees came up and said the store policy says that you have to have a mask, and yet I said medical reasons.”

PVT’s account states a Nye County Sheriff’s Office deputy “promptly ‘trespassed’” the man from Smith’s in early August, and a photo caption fragment in the PVT excerpt names Nye County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Joe McGill in connection with the incident. The PVT excerpt also includes a truncated reference that “numerous signs regarding the requirement of masks are displa[yed]” at the store entrance, indicating Smith’s had posted mask policy signage at the time of the encounter.

The CrimeRadar dispatch and the Pahrump Valley Times excerpt describe related enforcement actions using the term “trespassed,” but the materials supplied do not confirm that the Feb. 21 dispatch involved the same individual named in the PVT story. Neither the CrimeRadar summary nor the PVT excerpt mentions any arrest, citation, formal charge, or the issuance of signed trespass notices; both sources use the administrative phrasing “trespassed” without further detail on legal outcomes.

Key factual gaps remain: the full Feb. 21 dispatch transcript would show which businesses filed complaints, and sheriff’s office incident reports or trespass notices would confirm whether Deputy Joe McGill issued a notice and whether the same person was involved in multiple business complaints. Those records were not included in the summaries supplied.