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KEARNS — Police arrested two men Tuesday who they say kidnapped a 14-year-old boy at gunpoint because they believed he had “egged” their house.
The incident began early Tuesday when a man armed with a handgun banged on the door of a 14-year-old boy’s house in Kearns. “At some point the gun was pointed at (the boy’s) head and he heard the weapon being ‘racked,’” a police booking affidavit states.
The teenager was forced into an SUV where there was another man armed with a gun and two boys, ages 14 and 11, holding machetes, according to police.
“He was confronted about egging the person’s home. He denied ever egging the home,” the affidavit states.
The boy was taken a short distance away to the house where eggs had been thrown. He was confronted in the driveway by the group who “brandished their weapons at (the boy) and threatened to call the police but did not,” the affidavit states.
The group eventually released the boy and “told him to ‘walk it off,’” officers wrote. The boy returned home about 30 minutes after he was taken and police were called. Officers found the boy shaking and crying in his room, according to Unified police detective Ken Hansen.
Albert Schuster, 27, and Lance Malologa Sauvao Elenio, 25, were interviewed by police. Schuster said someone threw eggs at his home about 1 a.m. and they saw the boy walking in front of their residence about 2:30 a.m. so he got in a vehicle and chased him, the affidavit states.
“He shared he and Lance both open carry handguns and both had them with them,” police wrote in the report.
Both men were booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated assault.
