Former co-owner of C-Viche restaurant in Milwaukee gets 10 years for sexual assaults
The former co-owner of a Bay View eatery will spend the next 10 years behind bars for sexually assaulting women, some of whom worked for him.
Karlos Soriano-Cabrera received the prison sentence on Thursday, and also was ordered by Circuit Court Judge Jean Kies to 10 years of extended supervision when he is released.
A Milwaukee County jury convicted him June 7 on three counts of third-degree sexual assault and a single count fourth-degree sexual assault.
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Soriano-Cabrera, 41, was a co-owner of the Peruvian-influenced C-viche restaurant in Bay View. He was accused of assaulting at least five women. Four of them were restaurant employees, prosecutors said.
According to a criminal complaint, Soriano-Cabrera approached and sexually assaulted one victim and assaulted and raped another in a span of two hours between 2 and 4 a.m. on Sept. 25, 2022.
Two other women reported Soriano-Cabrera raped them in 2017.
In one instance that year, a woman woke up the morning after drinking with Soriano-Cabrera feeling as if she had been drugged. A sexual assault examination turned up Soriano-Cabrera's DNA, the complaint said.
Another victim reported multiple assaults by Soriano-Cabrera between 2016 and 2017.
A second C-Viche restaurant opened in Shorewood in November 2022. Soriano-Cabrera was also behind Kompali, a Brady Street taqueria, that also has a location in 3rd Street Market Hall in downtown Milwaukee.
This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Former Milwaukee restaurant co-owner goes to prison for sexual assault
