19-year-old Arner-Oriz charged with sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy and child enticement, according to Milwaukee police.
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
January 10, 2025
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - On Friday, Emilio A. Arner-Ortiz, 19, was criminally charged with using a computer to facilitate a 13-year-old child (boy) for a sex crime, abduction of a child, child enticement, 2nd-degree sexual assault of child under 16, and intentionally pointing a handgun at Milwaukee police officers.
If convicted on all charges, Arner-Ortiz is facing up to 126 years in prison and up to $360,000 in fines, or both.
According to the criminal complaint, Arner-Ortiz allegedly used a computer to chat with a 13-year-old old boy from Illinois for at least three years. He went to Alsip, Illinois on November 7, 2024, between 3:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., he picked up the boy and then returned to Milwaukee where he engaged in sex with the boy.
The boy's father on November 7, 2024 noticed around 3:00 a.m. that his son was not at home. His father then checked the boy's laptop and noticed that his son was chatting in the DISCORT app with a person called "Tres", according to police.
The parents filed a missing person report with Illinois police in the Village of Alsip.
Milwaukee police later located the boy at a McDonald's Restaurant on S. 6 Street and W. Oklahoma Ave. in the Southside of Milwaukee. The boy's mother came to Milwaukee to pick up the boy. The boy told his parents that Arner-Ortiz was his boyfriend, and that he was 16. The mother later discovered that Arner-Ortiz was 19.
When interviewed, the boy told Alsip police in Illinois that he had ran away from home with his 16-year-old boyfriend from Milwaukee, and that he had sex with the boyfriend in Milwaukee.
On December 1, 2024, the mother and boy returned to the Alsip Police Department to report additional information about Arner-Ortiz. The boy told police that he had sex with Arner-Ortiz in Milwaukee and that Arner-Ortiz had let him hold his unloaded handgun. The boy also told police that he placed the unloaded handgun to his head and pulled the trigger.
Milwaukee police on January 6, 2025, went to a residence at the 2500 block of S. 7th Street where Arner-Ortiz was at and when several Milwaukee Police Officers, Nicholas Zaragoza and Miguel Benitez were talking to Arner-Ortiz, he pulled a handgun out, and Officer Benitez, 35, began to struggle with him, then Benitez pulled out his service weapon and shot Arner-Ortiz once in the abdomen. Soon after getting shot, Arner-Ortiz told the officers that (the handgun) "it's unloaded, and suicide by cop."
Arner-Ortiz suffered a non-life threatening injury and was hospitalized, but was later taken into custody.
Arner-Ortiz and the boy had talked about committing suicide after police in Alsip, Illinois and Milwaukee police in Wisconsin learned of their DISCORD chats and sexual encounter in Milwaukee.
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