36-year-old Kevin Ivan López, Co-owner Of Judy's Cantina Mexican Restaurant Charged With 1st-degree Child Sexual Assault-Intercourse With A Person Under 16 And Sexual Assault Of Unconscious Victim In Milwaukee

López posted in social media that he will surrender to police and face charges.

By H. Nelson Goodson 

Hispanic News Network U.S.A.

April 1, 2025

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On early Tuesday, Kevin Ivan López, 36, the co-owner of Judy's Cantina, a Mexican Restaurant at the 2100 block of N. Farwell Ave., and Doña Judy's taco truck posted on social media that he will turn himself in to police and face charges for 1st-degree child sexual assault - intercourse with a person under 16 and sexual assault of a unconscious victim. A criminal complaint was filed against López on March 28, 2025. Also felony warrant was issued for López on March 29.

López is originally from Mexico City, Mexico.

If convicted, López is facing up to 60 years in prison for 1st-degree child sexual under 16 and up to 40 years in prison and up to $100K in fines, or both for sexual assault of a unconscious victim.

López posted on early Tuesday in his social media (Facebook) account, "By now there's been a lot circulating in regards to what I'm being accused of, I hope anyone who has ever known me can look back and think about the person they've known me to be and have always been and can see how things dont align. As I turn myself in to deal with this head on I hope that the truth comes to light and the system works the way it's intended to. I'm not posting this for sympathy, but for context."

According to the criminal complaint, on the early hours of March 24, 2025, López along with three other individuals after meeting at Judy's Cantina left the restaurant after closing to pickup a 14-year-old girl, and later returned to the closed restaurant and dranked to 4:00 a.m., then they left to an apartment where the 24-year-old female and the 14-year-old girl fell asleep in a bed. The young girl was awaken when she noticed that her 24-year-old sister who was unconscious was being sexually assaulted by López, and he also took photos of her naked with his cellphone. The girl also told police that López then sexually assaulted her while grabbing her arms and held her hands above her head. She told López to stop, but he wouldn't stop, according to the complaint. 

Afterwards, the 24-year-old woman woke up, and her young sister told her what had occurred, and that she did not want to do it with López, but it happened. Both sisters went to the hospital to get medical treatment and to get sexual assault exams.