Suspect in attempted kidnapping of Las Vegas student ID’d

By Max Michor / Las Vegas Review-Journal

September 25, 2018 - 12:21 pm

Jorge Gomez-Peretz (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)

A man who was arrested Monday morning after he allegedly tried to abduct a middle school student in the northwest Las Vegas Valley has been identified.

Just before 9 a.m., Metropolitan Police Department officers responded to reports of an attempted kidnapping at Leavitt Middle School, 3970 N. Tenaya Way, near Alexander Road.

School police had already detained a man who matched the suspect’s description, police said.

Jorge Gomez-Peretz, 37, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center later that day in connection with the attempted kidnapping, jail records show. He faces one count of kidnapping a minor.

A letter sent to parents of Leavitt Middle School students stated the student involved wasn’t injured. It provided no additional details of the incident.

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