Police: Man told of another bomb

That explosion destroyed a Home Depot employee’s pickup but did not harm anyone.

Porfirio Duarte Herrera, 27, told Las Vegas police that he chose the target of the Home Depot bombing at random and did not know the victim, the report said.

When detectives asked him why he did it, he broke down and said it was just an “idiot thing to do,” the report said.

Duarte Herrera is facing murder charges in connection with the Luxor bombing. Authorities added charges of attempted murder with a deadly weapon, manufacturing an explosive device and use of an explosive device for the Oct. 31 Home Depot bombing.

The Luxor bombing killed 24-year-old Willebaldo Dorantes Antonio, a Mexican immigrant who worked at a Nathan’s Famous hot dog restaurant inside the resort.

Police said a man identified as Omar Rueda-Denvers — later identified as Alexander Perez — and Duarte Herrera committed the homicide because Dorantes Antonio was dating Perez’s ex-girlfriend.

Perez, still booked in the county jail as Rueda-Denvers, is facing charges of murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder with a deadly weapon and illegally possessing an explosive device.

Duarte Herrera told police that he was asked to build the bomb, the police report said. He said he did not know what the bomb was going to be used for except that his co-conspirator was going to put it on his girlfriend’s car, according to the report.

Police said the suspects hid the bomb inside a cup and placed it on the victim’s vehicle. It exploded in the Luxor’s parking garage when Dorantes Antonio picked up the cup after he got off work about 4 a.m.

Duarte Herrera said that he made the bomb three days before the May 7 explosion and gave it to his co-defendant on the night of the incident, according to the report.

When asked how he kept the cup from flying away, he replied that he used a magnet to keep it in place, the report said.

He told police that he and another man drove to the Home Depot at 1401 S. Lamb Blvd., near Charleston Boulevard, on Oct. 31 about 8 p.m. to detonate a bomb, the report said.

Police said Duarte Herrera and another man identified only as Antonio randomly chose a 2006 Dodge Ram pickup owned by Ryan Wallace to blow up. Duarte Herrera told police he placed the homemade bomb made of gunpowder, a light bulb and a battery on the truck’s right front tire, set the timer for 20 minutes and then went across the street to a 7-Eleven to watch it explode.

After the truck exploded, the two men stayed for about 10 minutes as fire trucks arrived and then left, the report said.

The report stated that the man known as Rueda-Denvers told police that Duarte Herrera constructed the bomb for him and that Duarte Herrera was responsible for the Home Depot bombing.

Authorities later learned that Rueda-Denvers, who originally was identified as a Panamanian, was a Guatemalan immigrant named Alexander Perez who is suspected of stealing the Panamanian businessman’s identification. He has used other aliases too.

Authorities have gone to Panama to sort out the matter.