Juan Daniel Pedraza-Gutierrez was reported in online missing-child listings as a 15-year-old Hispanic male from Las Vegas, Nevada. Early public notice of the case listed him as missing from Las Vegas on January 23, 2026, and directed anyone with information to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department at 702-828-3111. That notice identified him as “Juan Pedraza-Gutierrez,” age 15, and placed the case in Las Vegas, Nevada, giving the public only a brief alert rather than a
detailed account of the circumstances surrounding his disappearance.
As the case appeared in later missing-child postings, the public information shifted in an important way: the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children listed him under the fuller name Juan Daniel Pedraza-Gutierrez, with NCIC number M528870284 and NCMEC case number 2078575. NCMEC’s poster states that Juan was missing from Las Vegas, Nevada, and that he was last seen on February 18, 2026. The same listing identifies him as male and 15 years old, and provides the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department number, 702-828-3111, along with NCMEC’s 24-hour call center, 1-800-843-5678, for tips.
A separate missing-child alert also describes Juan Daniel Pedraza-Gutierrez as a 15-year-old Hispanic male with brown hair and brown eyes, missing from Las Vegas, Nevada. That alert repeats the February 18, 2026 missing date and urges anyone with information, even information that might seem small, to come forward because it could help investigators. The alert also lists NCMEC’s 1-800-THE-LOST line and the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department as the agencies to contact.
The available online record does not provide a detailed public timeline of what Juan was doing before he disappeared, what clothing he may have been wearing, whether he was believed to be traveling with anyone, or whether there were confirmed sightings after he was reported missing. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department’s missing-persons page explains that its Missing Persons Detail investigates missing persons and runaway children, works to determine whether a crime has occurred, initiates searches quickly to reduce the risk of harm, and aims to return missing children to their families as soon as possible. LVMPD also notes that missing juveniles may be classified as runaway, custody dispute, or endangered, but the publicly available sources for Juan’s case do not provide a specific classification.
Taken together, the public sources tell a limited but serious story: Juan Daniel Pedraza-Gutierrez was a 15-year-old boy connected to Las Vegas whose disappearance was circulated through missing-child alerts and law-enforcement contact notices. One public notice listed the missing date as January 23, 2026, while NCMEC and later child-alert sources list February 18, 2026, so the public record contains a date discrepancy rather than a fully explained sequence of events. No online source reviewed states that Juan has been found alive or located deceased, and no source provides a public resolution. The overview of the case is that Juan Pedraza-Gutierrez remains presented in available online missing-child sources as a missing juvenile from Las Vegas, Nevada, with the most consistent public instructions asking anyone with knowledge of his whereabouts to contact the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department or the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.Last Seen: Jan 23, 2026
