Bohach Police/Firefighter Endowed Scholarship

John Bohach was born in 1966 in Bloomington, Indiana. After high school, John left military service with an early Honorable Discharge in order to join the Washoe County Sheriff’s Department in 1987. After a year with the Sheriff’s Department, John joined the Reno Police Department. In his 13 years as a Reno police officer, John Bohach earned a reputation as a highly efficient investigator who excelled at putting sex offenders and child abusers behind bars. He was considered among the best in terms of working with children who had been victims of abuse. Bohach was fatally shot in 2001 by a gunman in a standoff about a month after he was reassigned from Reno’s Child Sex Crimes Unit to patrol duty. This scholarship endowment was established by the Bohach family and friends as well as members of IAFF Local 731 to assist law enforcement officers and firefighters and their dependents pursue a college education. Recipients shall be active/retired professional police, firefighters or their dependents who work/live throughout Northern Nevada.