A 22-year-old man was arrested Tuesday for suspicion of felony false imprisonment and other alleged offenses, according to a Carson City Sheriff’s Office booking report.
Bryan Ledezma was taken into custody following an investigation. He was also booked for suspicion of felony preventing a victim from reporting a crime and gross misdemeanor destroying, concealing evidence.
According to the booking report, the victim made contact with a deputy at the Carson City Sheriff’s Office regarding an incident that happened April 14. She advised she lives with her boyfriend, Ledezma, and their four-year-old child. She stated the man had been drinking and an altercation occurred where she said he pushed her and she pushed back. She said the shoving caused the man’s t-shirt to tear slightly. She said he then ripped the shirt completely and said if she tried to call the police he’d claim she tore it, according to the report. She also advised the man was previously arrested and convicted of domestic battery with strangulation against her.
She said the arguing continued and she described becoming fearful and so she planned to leave the residence with the child. She said the man blocked the front door with his body and refused to allow her to leave. She said she tried to call 911 for help but he grabbed her phone from her hand and refused to return it.
She then grabbed the security camera sitting on the window sill by the front door and tried recording the man and his behavior but he grabbed it away from her. She said she retreated to her bedroom and locked the door to stay away from the man, but he used tools to remove the door knob altogether and kept harassing her. She told the deputy she was completely trapped in the residence without any way to call for help or flee, the report states.
She said the man stationed himself in the living room and blocked the door multiple times when she tried to leave with their child. The man eventually slept on the couch nearby. She said he would wake up to see if she tried to leave. Later that morning, she told the deputy the man had calmed down enough for her to get her phone back and to leave with her child. She went onto the camera app to save the video from the night before but found the man had deleted the app completely from her phone. She said she was afraid of the man and the escalation, the report states.
The deputy checked the woman for injuries, finding none. She did say she had left wrist pain and stated it had been swollen the night before. She completed a written statement and was escorted to the domestic violence advocates inside the courthouse to file for a protection order, the report states.
The investigating deputy responded to the residence to meet with the man. Initially there was no answer at the door but he answered the phone a few minutes later, advising he was in the apartment. The deputy made face to face contact with the man and asked him for his side of the story.
The man claimed the woman was the verbal and physical aggressor in the situation and that she had torn his shirt the night before. There was no way for the deputy to prove who the primary physical aggressor in the situation was, so the deputy focused on the other aspects of the case, the report states.
The deputy asked the man to show him the video of the situation, noting the nearby camera. The man said there was no video at all. He allowed the deputy to look at saved footage on his phone, at which time he became evasive, the report states.
The deputy confronted the man, who eventually admitted to deleting the video evidence in the altercation. He also admitted to deleting the app from the woman’s phone so she could not access the camera. He also admitted to blocking the front door to prevent her from leaving with their child because, he claimed, she was unable to drive at night. The deputy later checked the woman’s driving restriction, which showed corrective lenses but no night driving restrictions, according to the report.
The man showed the deputy the bedroom. The deputy observed the door knob still missing from the door. The man admitted he took the door knob off to prevent the woman from locking him out. He confirmed he had the woman’s phone and would not return it because he knew she would call 911 and he didn’t want her to cause more problems, the report states. He also stated this is why he prevented her from fleeing the apartment.
Due to the man’s story matching with the victim, along with the physical evidence of the removed door knob, the man was taken into custody and later booked for alleged felony false imprisonment to avoid arrest, preventing witness/victim from reporting a crime and gross misdemeanor destruction of evidence. Bail: $15,000.
In other arrests:
— A 27-year-old woman, Hailey Michele Parker, was booked Tuesday for a felony warrant alleging grand larceny and utter/possession with intent to use fictional bill/note/check. The warrant was issued April 14, 2025. She was already at the Carson City Jail for an unrelated crime. Bail: $5,000 cash.
— A 20-year-old California man, Jose Alexander Barrera-Gonzalez, was booked Tuesday into Carson City Jail for a felony warrant alleging two counts grand larceny of a motorize vehicle, vehicle theft and burglary of a business. The warrant was issued Dec. 31, 2024 out of Carson City Justice Court. The man was transported from Los Angeles Jail to Carson City Jail and booked into custody. Bail: $40,000 cash.
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