BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – A convict is facing decades in prison for allegedly trying to talk an underage girl into prostitution and dealing drugs.
34-year-old Lorenzo D. Harris is charged with 7 felonies, including second-degree sexual assault, child enticement, trafficking of a child and possession with intent to deliver drugs.
According to the criminal complaint, two underage girls were hanging out with a friend of theirs and a friend of his they didn’t know on January 16.
Once their mutual friend was dropped off, they drove around Green Bay getting to know this man who was identified only as “P”. He told the girls he was going to drive to Milwaukee, and they went along with him.
Once in Milwaukee, “P” made several stops which kept the girls in the minivan. “P” and his cousin got into the van and looked at, “The drugs he scored.” Both men started coming on to the girls, who rejected their advances by saying they were both too young.
The cousin didn’t stop making sexual advances, while sitting in the back of the van. He forced himself on one of the girls as they drove back to Green Bay that night.
The van went to a Howard gas station, and both girls were worried about getting away. They approached a man pumping gas, and he had witnessed a verbal altercation. The man offered to give the girls a ride home.
The girls then called police and explained their story.
On February 17, per the complaint, one of the girls got a call from “P” looking to get her to become a prostitute in Milwaukee. Police were contacted, and arranged to have her try to meet up with “P”.
After several phone calls, “P” agreed to pick her up at the Fleet Farm gas station in Howard. Once his minivan arrived and was identified, authorities swooped in and arrested him.
“P” later identified himself as Lorenzo Harris, who claimed he was just, “Coming to meet a girl and that they were going shopping.”
A search of Harris’ minivan tuned up a clear, plastic baggie containing numerous other baggies of either off white rock-like material or a brown powder/chunky material. The investigation determined that Harris had about 2.2 grams of crack cocaine and 0.9 grams of heroin.
Also found inside the van was a black and silver .40-caliber semi-automatic handgun in the glove compartment under the front passenger seat. The pistol was loaded with 14 rounds of ammunition in the magazine. One additional round was found in the glove box separately.
At the time, Harris was on active probation for a 2007 felony armed robbery conviction in Milwaukee County.
Lorenzo Harris is due back in Brown County court on April 29 for his pre-trial hearing. If convicted on all counts, Harris faces more than 180 years in prison.