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Man Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old Girl from Dallas Mavericks Game Charged with Sexual Assault

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James Craig

Updated on January 01, 2026

Nine months after the unexpected vanishing of a high school young lady from a Dallas Free thinkers game, specialists have captured the man blamed for stealing and physically dealing her.

On Jan. 26, Emanuel Jose Cartagena, 33, was arrested by individuals from the U.S. Marshals Team on an extraordinary crime warrant for the rape of a youngster, as per a public statement from the Dallas Police Division. He was in this way set up for the Chime Province Prison on Jan. 30, public prison records show.

It isn’t promptly clear on the off chance that he has entered a supplication or held a lawyer to talk for his benefit. Cartagena supposedly met the 15-year-old casualty outside the American Carriers Place on April 8, 2022, and afterward baited her to a house in the city, where he physically attacked her, police said in the delivery.

The young lady’s folks, Kyle and Brooke Morris, let CBS News know that the suspect started up a discussion with their little girl as she was en route to the restroom.

The main lead specialists had at the time was grainy observation film of a man in a yellow hoodie, CBS News reports, adding that the man has since been distinguished as Cartagena.

The casualty was found 10 days after the fact in an Oklahoma City lodging, where she had purportedly been sedated and physically dealt, the Morrises said, per the power source.

The philanthropic Texas Counter-Dealing Drive likewise helped in finding the youngster subsequent to posting a web-based promotion requesting sex, as per ESPN, which additionally detailed how the young lady was famished and not permitted to wash.

Man Accused of Luring 15-Year-Old Girl From Dallas Mavericks Game Charged With Sexual Assault

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While there, examiners captured three different suspects, Karen Gonzales, Sarah Hayes, and Kenneth Nelson, on charges of illegal exploitation, connivance, and PC violations, Fox 4 reports. Two of them have since conceded and are carrying out jail punishments, as per CBS. It isn’t promptly clear which suspect is as yet anticipating preliminary.

The Morrises communicated help that a stage toward equity has been taken, yet recognized how troublesome it has been to manage the injury. “With no Dallas captures in the nine months since she was physically attacked, it has been anguishing for the person in question and her folks,” her family’s lawyer, Zeke Fortenberry, said in a proclamation got by CBS.

“We trust that different suspects connected with her rape in Dallas will likewise be captured sooner rather than later.” On the off chance that you or somebody you know has been a casualty of sexual maltreatment, text “STRENGTH” to the Emergency Text Line at 741-741 to be associated with an ensured emergency guide.