A Venezuelan migrant who has been arrested eight instances in lower than two years is now detained on allegations that he repeatedly stabbed a person on a Again of the Yards sidewalk to steal his telephone, prosecutors mentioned.
Choose Antara Rivera on Wednesday ordered 26-year-old Anthony Vasquez Guedez detained on prices of theft and three counts of aggravated battery for the September 20 assault within the 4800 block of South Ashland Avenue.
Prosecutors mentioned the sufferer was recording the neighborhood on his telephone with plans to ship the video to his household when Vasquez Guedez confronted him and demanded that he delete the footage. When the person refused, Vasquez Guedez allegedly pulled out a six-inch knife and stabbed him a number of instances till the sufferer surrendered the gadget.
Vasquez Guedez was arrested final week in a separate incident after allegedly threatening one other individual with a knife and repeatedly kicking a Chicago police officer who was making an attempt to arrest him. Officers reported {that a} kitchen knife fell to the bottom throughout their battle to arrest him.
Court docket information present Vasquez Guedez has been arrested eight instances since January 2024. The circumstances embrace a number of shoplifting and home battery allegations, battery, and driving and not using a license twice in March 2024. He obtained a 32-day sentence earlier this month for felony shoplifting and failed to seem in court docket for the driving issues, based on court docket information. Prosecutors dropped the entire different circumstances.
Vasquez Guedez stays in custody whereas awaiting trial on his two newest arrests.
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