Police: Man who described himself as ‘cartel’ member abducted boys

Guillermo Aboytes Saavedra (Lyon County Jail).

In Nevada, police reported that a man who claimed to be part of “the Cartel” abducted three boys from a park, took them to his house, assaulted them, and forced them into a crawl space.

Guillermo Aboytes Saavedra, aged 23, is facing multiple charges, which include armed robbery, kidnapping, wrongful confinement, and child abuse. The incident occurred at approximately 6:15 p.m. on a Tuesday, following a call to the Lyon County Sheriff’s Office from the sister of one of the boys who had been threatened. Deputies headed to the 200 block of Johnson Lane in Fernley, situated about 30 miles to the east of Reno.

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When the deputies arrived, they started receiving distress calls from one of the boys, reporting that he and two others had been kidnapped and were being held in a crawl space. The deputies traced the boy’s phone signal and initiated a search in the vicinity. Prior to 7 p.m., they located the suspect’s residence and successfully rescued the boys from the crawl space.

Two of the boys suffered “substantial injuries” after Saavedra allegedly beat them with a wooded rake handle and scythe. The boys later told cops they were on the swings at a park when the suspect “came out of nowhere” with his fists balled up. He told the boys he “was a member of the Cartel.” Saavedra then allegedly slapped one of the boys in the face and said “he was not scared of jail and if he went to jail, he was going to kill them.”

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“The juvenile stated that Saavedra then told them they were going to go for a walk and to act normal and not look at any cars,” cops wrote.

He forced them down an alleyway before making them hop a fence that led to his backyard, cops said. Saavedra allegedly made one of the juveniles record him as he beat the teens. They were “continually removed from the crawl space and beaten,” police said.