The man charted with kidnapping and beating three youths last May pleaded guilty to three
counts of first degree kidnapping in Third Judicial District Court on Oct. 20.
At the same hearing, Guillermo Aboytes Saavedra also pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with
a deadly weapon in a separate case.
District Court Judge Leon Aberasturi said he would order a pre-sentence investigation and then
have his staff contact Saavedra’s attorneys, Patrick Mansfield and Massey Mayo, as well as the
district attorney’s office, to set a sentencing date.
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.
At the Oct. 20 arraignment hearing, Aberasturi read the allegations against Saavedra listed in
each count and asked Saavedra if he committed the acts described. Saavedra admitted he
kidnapped the three youths, beat two of them with a wooden handle and scratched the letter M
into the hand of one of the boys, then detained them in the craw space under the home on
Johnson Ct.
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. In pleading guilty,
Saavedra admitted to that charge.
For the kidnapping charges, Saavedra faces possible sentences of life in prison with the
possibility of parole after five years, or a definite term of 15 years with the possibility of parole
after five years. The assault with a deadly weapon charge carries a sentence of a minimum of one
year to maximum of six years in prison and a fine up to maximum of $5,000. Aberasturi told
Saavedra the sentences could be imposed either consecutively or concurrently.
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