Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Suspect in UNLV student abduction admits to foot fetish

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Juh’Juan Washington

While they rode in the victim’s car after the suspect abducted her at gunpoint from a UNLV parking garage last week, the man announced that he had a foot fetish, according to a Metro Police arrest report.

Juh’Juan Dayvon Washington, 21, is also accused of abducting another woman at gunpoint the previous day and threatening to “blow your (expletive) brains out” before stealing her car, police said.

And he is suspected in three previous incidents in which UNLV students were touched or came close to being abducted by a man who matches his description, police said.

Those incidents remain under investigation, but surveillance video from one of them shows the suspect in the same clothes Washington as when he allegedly kidnapped the student at the parking garage on Oct. 20, police said.

Officers that day were dispatched about 7:15 a.m. to the area of Cambridge Street and Katie Avenue, police said. The victim was able to take Washington’s gun from him after he forced her into lewd acts, and she chased him away.

The student said she had just parked at the Cottage Grove garage and was getting her belongings from the backseat of her car when Washington approached her and forced her into the car at gunpoint, police said.

The victim — under direction from Washington — drove to a nearby community center, and then a nearby apartment complex, where he forced her into lewd acts, police said. He recorded parts of the acts on her cellphone. She told detectives that several children walked past the car while they were at the community center and that Washington would duck down when they did.

In addition to the cellphone videos and Washington's fingerprints recovered on the victim's car, a man who identified himself as Washington’s stepfather approached police the next day and told them “you’re looking for my stepson … he raped the girl at UNLV; we (his mother and he) saw him on the news."

Detectives then discovered Washington was arrested in September by Clark County School District police and booked on counts of luring or attempting to lure a child or mentally ill person, loitering about school or public place where children congregate, false statement to obstruct police and interfering with a student from attending school.

Washington was arrested on Sunday, police said. At first he denied his involvement in the Oct. 20 incident but later admitted to kidnapping the victim and stealing her car. He also admitted to holding another victim at gunpoint.

He maintained that he didn’t force the victim into sexual acts, according to the report. The cellphone video depicts a man's voice telling the victim "you don't like this do you" before telling her he "should've just asked her 'to do this' and she probably would've."

"I never would've pointed the gun," he's heard saying after.

“While reviewing the incidents from UNLV, Juh’Juan became upset and stated that we should just shoot him or put him in a mental hospital,” a detective wrote in the report.

Washington, who made a court appearance on Wednesday and ordered held at a $1 million bail, is expected to plead not guilty to felony and misdemeanor charges including auto theft, lewdness, armed robbery and kidnapping, which carries a possible sentence of up to life in prison.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.