Police arrive on Bridge Street with guns drawn, arrest man
Las Vegas Police responded to a business in the 100 block of Bridge Street with guns drawn after receiving a call about a man pointing a handgun at people.
LVPD officers confronted 32-year-old Alfonso H. Garduño on Dec. 3 around 3:30 p.m. in the breezeway of a building on Bridge Street, ordering him to get on the ground. Garduño was handcuffed and detained without a struggle, according to records filed in San Miguel Magistrate Court.
According to a police report, Garduño told officers, “It’s the little boy’s fault.” Officers located a “P-23 Gamo BB gun” in Garduño’s sweatshirt, as well as “a glass smoking device, a syringe and a light bulb,” which Garduño admitted was for using drugs.
Police interviewed a 12-year-old boy who said he was in a restaurant in the 100 block of Bridge Street where he witnessed Garduño pull a handgun from his waistband.
Initially, Garduño refused to talk to police, but while in custody at the LVPD station, he agreed to give a statement, telling police he’d been at the restaurant to sell the BB gun to a kid who “got scared” when he took it out of his waistband.
Garduño was booked into the San Miguel County Detention Center later that day on outstanding failure to appear/failure to pay warrants, a felony charge of aggravated assault (use of a deadly weapon) and three misdemeanor counts of possession of drug paraphernalia. Bond for Garduño was set at $5,000 cash only, but as of this writing, he was still in custody at SMCDC.
Garduño has a lengthy criminal history in New Mexico dating back to 2009, including a 2012 charge of criminal sexual penetration, which was ultimately dismissed. In 2015, he was charged for violating a restraining order; he later pleaded guilty to criminal trespass. However, Garduño failed to complete court-ordered community service.
In two separate cases, one in 2016 and one in 2017, Garduño was charged with felony larceny and possession of burglary tools, pleading guilty in the 2016 case. Garduño also has several previous drug paraphernalia charges, and has had numerous bench warrants issued for either failing to appear in court, failing to pay court fines or failing to complete court-ordered community service.
During a Thursday hearing in San Miguel Magistrate Court, Judge Melanie Rivera transfered Garduño’s case to district court, pending a determination of competency to stand trial.
