Crime & Safety

Warminster Man Arrested for Assaulting 12-Year-Old

The suspect was charged with indecent assault and sent to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on $100,000 bail.

Warminster police responded to a report of an assault of a 12-year-old girl that occurred at the Bucks Landing Apartments in Warminster, late Wednesday afternoon.  

The suspect was identified as Miguel Ortiz-Cortez who was arrested and charged with indecent assault and unlawful contact with a minor and was arraigned last night before Judge Charles Baum of Perkasie.  

Bail was set at $100,000 and Ortiz-Cortez was ordered to have no contact with the victim. Ortiz-Cortez was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility.

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