Two weeks after officers issued a warning a few man following and inappropriately touching ladies at a North Aspect park, prosecutors have filed prices within the case. However, as a result of he isn’t charged with a detainable offense, prosecutors didn’t ask a decide to maintain him in custody.
Noaman Patel, 22, of the 6300 block of North Artesian, is charged with three counts of aggravated battery in a public place, allegations stemming from three separate incidents this month, together with two on the West Ridge Nature Protect.
Aggravated battery in a public place isn’t a detainable cost beneath the cashless bail provisions of Illinois’ SAFE-T Act, based on supplies printed by the seventeenth Judicial Circuit Court docket and a DuPage County decide.
In accordance with police and courtroom filings, the primary assault occurred on the nature protect, 5801 North Western Avenue, round 10:15 a.m. on August 4. A 53-year-old lady was strolling within the park when a person got here up from behind, grabbed her buttocks, after which fled on foot.
Two days later, on the morning of August 6, a 33-year-old lady reported being struck on the buttocks whereas strolling within the protect. She ran away, yelling for assist as the person briefly adopted her earlier than breaking off and leaving the park, based on an preliminary police report.
The third incident got here on August 14, when a 29-year-old lady reported {that a} man grabbed her buttocks within the 6100 block of North Maplewood Avenue.
Chicago cops arrested Patel this week, and he appeared earlier than Decide James Murphy III on Thursday. Murphy launched him with orders to avoid the victims.
