CHICAGO — Maybe you learn our story final week headlined “Migrant mugged 80-year-old Bridgeport girl, prosecutors say (and a decide launched him the subsequent day).” What we didn’t know was that the migrant in query had been arrested once more simply hours earlier than we revealed the story—for allegedly burglarizing an occupied residence.
Elio Redondo Ragas, a Venezuelan immigrant, faces expenses for allegedly mugging an 80-year-old girl within the 3000 block of South Wentworth on August 2, as we reported final week.
The sufferer instructed police that Ragas obtained off his bike, wrestled away her purse, and stole the hat off the highest of her head. Then he obtained again on the bike and pedaled away. Two good Samaritans chased him down and held him till the police arrived.
Whereas prosecutors charged him with theft of a sufferer older than 60, they didn’t ask Decide Caroline Glennon-Goodman to detain him throughout his first court docket listening to on August 3. And Glennon-Goodman let him go residence with out an ankle monitor, too.
Simply three days later, prosecutors now say, Ragas broke right into a household’s residence within the 6900 block of South Campbell.
At about 2:30 a.m. on August 6, a 40-year-old man referred to as 911 after being woke up by Ragas getting into his unlocked again door, a CPD report stated. The person and one other resident each instructed police that they didn’t know Ragas, whom they discovered rifling by way of containers within the basement and raiding the fridge, in accordance with the report.
Ragas dropped the housebreaking proceeds and ran out the again door, however the victims’ next-door neighbor tackled him and held him till officers arrived.
This time, prosecutors requested Decide Susana Ortiz to detain Ragas on a cost of housebreaking. Ortiz agreed, noting that Ragas has solely been in the USA for 14 months.
