Lyon County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Gabriel Santos, Deputy Stiles Sousa, and Deputy Joshua Lynch were presented with Meritorious Service Medals for their efforts in apprehending the rescuing three youths who had been kidnapped and beaten.
The medals were presented by Sheriff Brad Pope during the June 4 meeting of the Lyon County Commission.
On May 6, the deputies responded to the area of the 200 block of Johnson Lane in Fernley for what was initially dispatched as threats call. The reporting party said that her brother was receiving text threats from someone and that they were in the area trying to locate their brother. Deputies made contact with the reporting party, who was able to track the phone belonging to their juvenile brother. Near this time, Lyon County Dispatch began receiving phone calls from the juvenile’s phone, with the juvenile reporting he was in a basement with two other juveniles, and that the suspect had beaten them.
Upon arriving in the area of the phone’s ping, deputies made contact with the suspect, known to law enforcement as Guillermo Aboytes Saavedra, who was immediately detained. Shortly after that, deputies entered the backyard of the residence where Saavedra was initially contacted and where the juvenile’s phone was pinging, where they discovered the three boys held captive in the crawl space of the home. Two of the juveniles had received substantial injuries from Guillermo striking them repeatedly with a wooden rake handle and scythe. The juveniles reported that Guillermo had taken one of the juvenile’s phones, and threatened to kill him.
“I believe that had our deputies not acted in an extremely fast and timely manner using their investigative skills, that one or more of those juveniles would have been killed by the suspect,” Pope said.
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