GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – One suspect in the presumed murder of a Green Bay man was convicted on Friday.
19-year-old Emma Brud pleaded no contest on Friday to a count of aiding a felon for the Feb. 25, 2017 death of Green Bay resident Jovanny Puga at a Milwaukee park.
The complaint states that Brud took Puga’s clothes from the crime scene and disposed of them.
Court records show that she will be sentenced April 23.
Puga was beaten and left for dead in a Milwaukee river and his body has never been found. Brandan Guyton-Denn, Shawn Leitner, and Jaleel Schultz are charged with his murder.
Investigators first learned of reports of a man beaten to death and thrown into the Milwaukee River in March of 2017, according to the criminal complaint.
The criminal complaint states that three of the four suspects were arrested in March of 2017 when a vehicle that was reported stolen out of De Pere by Brud’s mother was stopped by police.
Phrases such as “Lincoln Park Milwaukee satellite view”, “Milwaukee deaths last night” and “Milwaukee deaths in the river,” were found following internet searches of the suspect’s cellphones.
The complaint states that according to Brud, she and Guyton-Denn were dating and following a dispute they “wanted revenge” on Puga. According to prosecutors, Puga was brought to Milwaukee by Brud and she knew that he would be beaten. The complaint reads that Puga was undressed after being beaten and then tossed into the river.
Guyton-Denn is scheduled to stand trial on March 18 and Leitner is scheduled to stand trial on April 8, while Schultz has not been arrested and remains at large.
