Police capture man who escaped Metro command center

A man who escaped police custody more than two weeks ago wasn’t so lucky Sunday when he was captured after barricading himself inside a vacant house in the northwest valley.

Las Vegas police responded to a call of a person with a gun around noon near North Tenaya Way and West Rome Boulevard. Upon officers’ arrival, the man took off on foot and broke into a vacant home, Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Jeff Goodwin said.

SWAT investigators spent the better part of Sunday afternoon and evening trying to negotiate with the man, Metro said. Police eventually took him into custody.

Goodwin confirmed the man in custody is 39-year-old Ivan Mayoral, who on April 8 slipped out of his handcuffs and left a Northeast Area Command interview room.

During that previous incident, police were conducting an investigation into a stolen vehicle in the 800 block of North Lamb Boulevard. When officers located the stolen vehicle and initiated a vehicle stop, Mayoral took off on foot but was taken into custody.

As officers at the Northeast Area Command substation were completing his booking paperwork, they later discovered Mayoral was no longer in the interview room.

Because there was access to weapons in the station and civilians were present, the decision was made to evacuate the station and to treat the April 8 incident as a barricade situation until SWAT could complete a thorough search, police said.

Information on charges Mayoral will face was not immediately available Sunday night.