MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A now-31-year-old guy from the Tampa Bay house claimed to be 16 when he started a web based dating with a then-14-year-old lady from Miami-Dade County again in 2020, culminating in 3 sexual encounters with the still-underage lady 3 years later in South Florida, in accordance to police.
Authorities accuse Michael Justin Ortiz, of Pinellas Park, of pretending to be the woman’s classmate at Miami Northwestern Senior High School within the years earlier than they met, even name-dropping a number of academics on the college. But police stated he all the time had an excuse of why they couldn’t meet in school.
The pair first met on a social media platform, police stated.
Miami-Dade police went to the Pinellas County Jail Tuesday to arrest Ortiz on a fee of illegal sexual process with a minor.
An arrest warrant states after steady conversation on social media and thru textual content messages and FaceTime, the 2 agreed to be “boyfriend and girlfriend” in March or April and talked of shopping for a space and splitting bills; he even purchased her a promise ring, police stated.
Then, in June, Ortiz went to the woman’s aunt’s space in Kendall and instructed her to meet him around the boulevard so her aunt wouldn’t see him, police stated.
A detective wrote within the arrest warrant that after the woman, who by way of then had grew to become 17, first noticed the 31-year-old, “she confronted him about his age and she told him he looked older,” scary him and inflicting him to “yell” and “cuss” at her.
The detective wrote that Ortiz “assured” the sufferer he was once most effective two years older than her and “said he was 20 years old.”
“Based off his aggressive reaction to her questioning his age, the victim did not want to confront him again about the matter because she did not want him to get upset at her,” the warrant states.
The pair then went to a film theater at The Falls buying groceries mall, the place Ortiz “guilt-tripped” her into having sex within the again seat of his automobile after seeing a film, police wrote.
Police stated in the second one come upon, the pair noticed a film at The Falls after which drove to the Miami Seaquarium, the place Ortiz once more had sex with her at the back of his automobile.
In the 3rd and ultimate come upon, police stated the pair noticed a film at a theatre on South Beach’s Lincoln Road after which had sex whilst parked in a Miami Beach municipal storage.
Police stated the woman’s mom become conscious about the connection and requested her to display her {a photograph}.
The warrant states that when being proven a photograph of Ortiz with the woman, the woman’s mom “became concerned and questioned his age.”
The lady instructed her mom Ortiz was once 18 as a result of she didn’t need to “get in trouble” by way of announcing he was once 20, police wrote.
According to the warrant, upon getting Ortiz’s call and call quantity, the woman’s mom Googled him and came upon he was once neither 18 nor 20 and was once as a substitute 31. She then contacted police.
Police stated Ortiz admitted to the sexual dating throughout a recorded, managed telephone name on Aug. 8.
He was once being hung on a $500,000 bond within the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center as of Wednesday afternoon.
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