Competency questions halt proceedings in vehicular homicide case

Proceedings have been halted while doctors evaluate the competency of a man accused of being drunk during the March 20 head-on collision that killed 24-year-old Carson City resident Brian A. Vasquez-Gonzalez.

Stephen Michael Pawlowski, 64, appeared in Douglas County District Court on Monday where attorney Alexandra Dyer sought a 45-day continuance.

Pawlowski was free on $1 million cash bail for around a month before he was arrested on a warrant July 14 after a transdermal alcohol device indicated he had been drinking in violation of his release conditions…

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