Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell announced on Wednesday that a teen boy has been sentenced to prison for attacking and choking his girlfriend earlier this year.
Troy Aguilar-Olmos, 16, will serve 3.5 years in prison for his offenses, Mitchell announced. When he is released, he will be placed on supervised probation for three years.
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Prosecutors claim Aguilar-Olmos threatened to shoot and murder his lover if she did not come out of her house to speak with him in March, when he was 15 years old. “She was afraid for her family, so she complied,” Mitchell added.
When she approached him, he choked her, held a gun at her back, and hit her repeatedly.
“Luckily, her sister’s boyfriend was there, and he intervened and got the gun away,” Mitchell told me.
Aguilar-Olmos was later apprehended at his parents’ home. However, the abuse did not end. During Mitchell’s news conference on Wednesday, she played phone calls he made to her in which he threatened her in Spanish if she spoke to other men.
“I don’t want you to be playing with a guy because if you’re talking to a guy and you think that because I’m in jail, I can’t do anything, my queen, you’re wrong,” his phone call said, translated into English. “You know I’m going to get out of here, and when I get out of here, if I find out about something, watch out.”
Aguilar-Olmos then threatened to set fire to a restaurant if he found out what had happened between her and another boy.
“They want to get me fucking mad if I find out some shit going on in there,” Aguilar-Olmos remarked during the call. “I’m going to burn down the entire place, and dude, they’re fucking tweaking on me.
He was charged as an adult and ultimately pleaded guilty to serious assault charges.
“So, parents, recognize that this may happen to your children. It can happen to teenagers.” The victim in this case was a teenager,” Mitchell explained. “So please educate them about domestic violence because it happens to them.”
Contact or text the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 if you or someone you know is experiencing abuse. For more resources in the Phoenix region, click or touch here.
