Man Points Gun at Children; Police Find his Drug House, Weapons

MILWAUKEE, WI — A man who pointed his gun at a group of children during a heated argument faces 16 charges after police later searched his girlfriend's apartment only to find a drug house and a cache of weapons.

Milwaukee police responded to the Cat Daddy Bar on the 2600 block of Seventh Street on a report that Jesse Agosto had pointed his gun at a family, including children, after a dispute.

On the night of March 30, the bar manager's family was parked nearby on Cleveland Ave in the mother's Cadillac Escalade when they saw Agosto get in his Silver Infiniti, make a quick U-turn, and park behind her Escalade, police say.

According to his criminal complaint, Agosto then got out of the vehicle and began walking toward her Escalade with a black handgun in hand. Everyone got out of the Escalade and the children started running.

Agosto pointed the handgun at her children and friend while yelling that he was going to kill them. When pointing the gun at the children, the magazine fell out, police reported. Agosto picked up the magazine and then left the scene.

The next day, police executed search warrants at the home of Agosto's girlfriend, Maria Correa, on the 800 block of N. 24th St. in Milwaukee. Agosto and his girlfriend Maria Correa were there, according to the complaint.

According to the criminal complaint, police detected the strength of the odor of marijuana increasing as they approached the northeast bedroom. In the residence, officers found some items of interest that include:

• A black .40 caliber semi-automatic FN America pistol loaded with 13 unspent cartridges that fell through the felt on the bottom of a box spring mattress;
• A nylon holster in the dresser drawer that was 2d from the top;
• Five glass jars in the box of a child’s cradle and a Tupperware container of apparent marijuana (totaling 950.25 g ~= 2.09 lbs.) in the walk-in closet of the northeast bedroom that contained laundry materials and baby stuff
• A digital scale in a top dresser drawer next to a small bag of apparent marijuana (0.58 g) and (photos showing) a bracelet with “Jesse” upon it
• A digital phone resting atop a baseboard but hidden behind a different dresser
• A digital scale in a different closet of the northeast bedroom in a box that also contained an index note card expressing a wife’s appreciation and love to her steadfast husband.
• A box of unspent .40 caliber cartridges in the closet where the love note was found
• A blackberry phone in the closet where the love note was found
• An iPhone in the closet where the love note was found;
• A purse that contained Correa’s Wisconsin identification hanging from the back of th northeast bedroom door.
• Photos of both defendants in the northeast bedroom;
• Defendant Agosto’s bank statement dated Mar. 20, 2017, in a dresser that also contained theholster in th northeast bedroom;
• Marijuana (1.03 g) on the living room TV stand.

Based upon training and experiences in drug arrests and investigations, authorities noted that the very nature of illegal drug trade is inherently dangerous and competitive and so individuals who traffic these drugs very often arm themselves in order to protect themselves, their market area, their product, and their proceeds.

Maria Correa has been charged with harboring a felon and keeping a drug house.

Agosto has been charged with 16 charges included, eight counts of bail jumping, harboring a felon, keeping a drug house as a party to a crime, possesion with intent to deliver a controlled substance, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, three counts of endangering safety by use of a dangerous weapon,

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