An arraignment hearing for the man charged with kidnapping and beating three youths was continued until Oct. 20 in Third Judicial District Court in Yerington Monday morning.
Guillermo Aboytes Saavedra is facing two counts of kidnapping, first degree; one count of kidnapping, first degree, resulting in substantial bodily harm; and three counts of child abuse or neglect, all felonies. He was also scheduled to be arraigned in a separate case on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
Saavedra waived a preliminary hearing in Canal Township Justice Court on Aug. 26 and the case was bound over to District Court.
During Monday’s hearing, his attorney requested that the case be continued to Oct. 20.
“Mr. Saavedra had some additional questions that he’d like answered before entering his guilty plea,” said attorney Massey Mayo.
In the kidnapping case, Saavedra was arrested May 6 after Lyon County Sheriff’s deputies received a call from someone who said her brother had texted her that someone was threatening to kill him. Deputies pinged the youth’s phone and eventually found three youths in the crawl space of a house on Johnson Ct.
LCSO said the youths had been playing on the swings at the park located off Cory Way when Saavedra approached and threatened them. They charged that he then forced them to walk to the home on Johnson Ct., where he beat them before forcing them into the crawl space.
In the assault case, Saavedra was arrested Jan. 28. Court documents allege that he attempted to use physical force against another person and intentionally placed that person in reasonable apprehension of immediate bodily harm by chasing him with a knife.
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