Alexcer Solis Gomez and Pedro Giron Perez (Carbon County Jail)
MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — One of the suspects charged with kidnapping a Manitowoc girl, taking her to Wyoming, pleaded not guilty Thursday.
Pedro Giron-Perez was bound over for trial after testimony at a preliminary hearing. He then entered the not guilty plea on the abduction of a child charge.
No trial date was set. He returns to court May 20 for a scheduling conference, court records show.
The co-defendant, Alexcer Solis-Gomez, has his arraignment set for Friday.
Both men are charged with being party to the crime of abduction of a child for the Nov. 28 incident, when the Two Rivers Police Department was notified about a 16-year-old girl missing from Manitowoc. The girl’s younger sister told police the victim said she was “on the road” and that it was “for the safety of her family.”
According to the criminal complaint: “WITNESS 1 stated CHILD VICTIM’s boyfriend had become involved with the cartel and CHILD VICTIM believed she was being followed. WITNESS 1 said CHILD VICTIM had stated she woke up to an airdropped photo with a gun pointed at the residence she was staying at.”
The complaint says the missing girl was last seen being picked up by a Hispanic male in a small, dark-colored sedan, several hours before law enforcement was informed of her disappearance.
Investigators learned the girl may be with her boyfriend, a 20-year-old man, who has a bench warrant for felony drug offenses in Outagamie County, according to the complaint.
Police tracked the girl’s phone and determined she had been taken out of Wisconsin. Two Rivers Police worked with law enforcement partners to send alerts to the states the juvenile was traveling in or headed toward and used Flock cameras to identify the suspect vehicle.
That is how the information got to the Wyoming Highway Patrol. According to WHP, troopers responded to a ‘Be On The Lookout’ alert Nov. 29 for a missing female minor from Wisconsin.
Using cell phone pings, troopers were able to determine the location of the suspect vehicle and conduct a traffic stop. Law enforcement said the missing girl was found inside the vehicle with Solis Gomez and Giron Perez, who claimed they had been hired by the girl’s boyfriend to transport her to California.
The complaint says Solis Gomez admitted he was the man who had picked up the girl in Two Rivers.
“ALEXCER stated to Wyoming troopers that he was being paid $1500 to travel from California to Wisconsin to pick up CHILD VICTIM by [her boyfriend]… and bring her back to California for her to reside with [the boyfriend],” the complaint states.
According to the complaint, a note was found in the girl’s bedroom after her disappearance which “detailed a plan that was communicated to her on how she would be discretely taken from the custody of her father.”
The girl was found safe and unharmed.
In a previous court hearing, Assistant District Attorney Angelina Scarpelli said there may be ICE holds on both suspects.
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