Colorado man arrested after police say he traveled to Idaho Falls to have sex with minor

IDAHO FALLS — Police opportunity a 30-year-old man traveled from Colorado to Idaho Falls to person activity pinch a 17-year-old.

Carlos Michael Ortega was charged pinch felony rape wherever nan unfortunate is 16 aliases 17 years old, and nan perpetrator is 3 aliases much years older than nan victim.

On Jan. 25, an Idaho Falls constabulary serviceman took a study from Jefferson County that a 17-year-old woman had been picked up from her location and taken to Idaho Falls by a man identified arsenic Ortega.

According to tribunal documents, Ortega had activity pinch nan unfortunate successful Idaho Falls.

The serviceman scheduled a forensic question and reply for nan victim, who said Ortega picked her up astatine location and took her to The Hampton Inn successful Idaho Falls connected Jan. 6.

While astatine nan hotel, nan unfortunate says they had sex.

When an serviceman called Ortega later, he confirmed he had traveled from Colorado to Idaho and picked up nan victim.

Ortega said he and nan unfortunate had been talking and he “perceived their narration to beryllium romantic.”

During nan interview, Ortega primitively said nan unfortunate was 18-years-old, but later said she was 17-years-old.

He allegedly stopped astatine a state position to bargain condoms earlier taking nan unfortunate to nan hotel.

During nan Idaho investigation, Ortega was incarcerated successful nan Pueblo County Jail successful Colorado. It is not clear what he was incarcerated successful Colorado for.

A warrant from Bonneville County was issued for Ortega connected April 1, and was served connected May 8.

Ortega was fixed a enslaved of $30,000, and he is presently being held astatine nan Bonneville County Jail. A no-contact bid was issued for nan victim,

Ortega is expected to look for a preliminary proceeding connected May 21. If convicted, he could look up to life successful prison.

Though Ortega has been charged pinch these crimes, it does not needfully mean he committed them. Everyone is presumed guiltless until proven guilty.