A 42-year-old man accused of groping two ladies at a downtown CTA station in June has been ordered detained whereas awaiting trial, prosecutors mentioned.
Angelo Guerrero is charged with two counts of felony sexual abuse and two counts of aggravated battery of a transit buyer in reference to the June 16 assaults on the Washington-Wabash station, 29 North Wabash.
In line with prosecutors, CTA surveillance video captured Guerrero approaching a lady who was ready on the platform, touching her between the legs, and strolling away. Across the similar time, one other lady on the similar station reported {that a} man had accomplished the identical factor to her.
Investigators recognized Guerrero by linking him to the Ventra card that the attacker used. They then positioned his image in a photograph lineup, and each victims recognized him, in keeping with a CPD report. When police arrested Guerrero just lately, he was allegedly sporting the identical clothes seen on the attacker in CTA video footage.
Decide Ankur Srivastava granted prosecutors’ request to detain Guerrero pending trial.
Court docket information present Guerrero has not had a neighborhood felony case since 2015. His earlier document features a three-year jail sentence for illegal gun possession in 2003. In 2001, he confronted tried homicide fees however pleaded responsible to aggravated battery and was sentenced to the Cook dinner County sheriff’s boot camp program.
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