A migrant accused of robbing two girls and sexually assaulting one among them has prevented a trial after putting a deal that leaves him convicted solely of 1 theft. Prosecutors dropped the sexual assault expenses and the second theft case altogether after Elvis Hernandez-Pernalete entered his plea earlier than Decide Ursula Walowski.
Walowski sentenced Hernandez-Pernalete to 6 years in jail. However below state legislation, the sentence is mechanically diminished by 50 p.c for good habits, and extra credit earned whereas in jail make him eligible for launch in December 2026, lower than three years after his arrest.
In March 2024, prosecutors portrayed Hernandez-Pernalete, 29, as a public security menace after two violent assaults inside hours of one another.
In line with courtroom filings, surveillance video from each the CTA and the College of Illinois Chicago campus confirmed him trailing a lady from the UIC-Halsted Blue Line station on the evening of March 16. Once they reached the 900 block of West Harrison Avenue, he grabbed her from behind and dragged her to the bottom. He held the sufferer in a leg lock whereas chopping off her air provide, inflicting her to lose consciousness, prosecutors claimed.
When she handed out, prosecutors alleged, he turned her over, stole her jewellery, and groped her physique.
“[He] truly admits to the police that he believed he had killed her and [is] seen trying to maneuver the sufferer’s physique,” a prosecutor stated throughout his first courtroom listening to. Hernandez-Pernalete fled when a witness noticed what was taking place.
Three hours later, authorities stated, he attacked one other lady after she left a Northwest Aspect CTA station. In that case, prosecutors stated he choked the girl throughout a theft try.
Regardless of the horrifying allegations specified by early courtroom hearings, information present Hernandez-Pernalete finally pleaded responsible solely to robbing the primary sufferer. The sexual assault expenses have been dropped and the second case was dismissed altogether.
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