Intimidation of witnesses of sexual assault; Milwaukee man, family charged

MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee man is charged with sexual assault in 2023, and now he, his mother and his wife face witness intimidation charges in connection with the case.

In separate cases, prosecutors charged Michael Glenn, 33, with first-degree sexual assault and intimidation of a witness. Lillie Allen, 67, and Deborah Moody, 35, are also charged with witness intimidation.

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Sexual assault

This happened in July 2023. The report states that the victim was walking near 60th and Appleton when a stranger in a vehicle approached him and pointed a gun at his head. Then, still holding the gun, he said the stranger forced him into the car and ordered him to perform a sex act. The victim testified that he got out and ran away when the stranger tried to pull down the victim’s pants.

The victim gave her shirt to police for a sexual assault investigation. Prosecutors said the shirt and testing kit were turned over to the Wisconsin State Crime Laboratory. Swabs from the victim’s chest were examined and a DNA profile was developed. The complaint said the DNA profile matched Glenn, and prosecutors said the victim had “no reason” to have Glenn’s DNA on her chest.

After the DNA hit again in April 2024, prosecutors charged Glenn. The complaint said he repeatedly called Moody and Allen from prison in the months that followed.

Witness intimidation

In a Sept. 30 phone call from jail, prosecutors said Glenn asked Allen, “Can you write a letter to convince these people to just go down there or call the district attorney or do whatever and just tell the truth, because that’s all.” could cause me to die instantly, with the snap of a finger.

Glenn also said during the call to “let them know something like this has never happened” and said that “if they stop me for beatings (sic) I will take a battery charge.” The complaint states that later that day, Glenn called Moody and discussed delivering the letter.

Prosecutors said Moody later admitted to talking to Glenn on the phone about the sexual assault case. She said she believed her husband was innocent and visited the victim’s home four times, leaving her name and phone number. She also admitted planting a letter written by Allen.

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Allen said Glenn called her from jail and asked her to write a letter to the victim as part of the complaint. She said she “tried to appeal to his human nature in her letter.”

Prosecutors said Glenn and Moody also used the word “cell phone” as a code for the weapon during phone calls to the prison. Amid the conversations, Glenn told Moody that police “didn’t find a ‘cell phone'” under the car seat and he “didn’t want to get two more years for a ‘cell phone.’

According to the complaint, Moody stated that the gun was “currently missing or stolen.” She also said the gun Glenn mentioned during the jail call was a black gun, and that a different black gun was used in another gun case.