Authorities have charged a person with sexually assaulting three girls in Logan Sq. this yr, in addition to two extra girls in crimes relationship again to 2022 within the Northwest Facet neighborhood and in Lake View.
Chakib Mansour Khodja, 36, of Jefferson Park, was arrested Friday after arriving on a flight to O’Hare Airport, Chicago Police Supt. Larry Snelling introduced Monday.
Khodja was charged with three felony counts of aggravated legal sexual assault in the latest assaults. Moreover, he’s additionally charged with sexual abuse, aggravated kidnapping, illegal restraint, tried dwelling invasion and public indecency costs.
A Prepare dinner County decide ordered him detained pending trial on all felony counts, citing his “repetitive, predatory conduct.”
In all, he faces 16 felony counts and two misdemeanors within the assaults of 5 girls.
Prepare dinner County State’s Legal professional Eileen O’Neill Burke mentioned the investigation lasted three years, culminating within the arrest after “dogged” efforts of detectives and prosecutors.
“Right this moment town is safer. Right this moment each single girl on this metropolis — each single man who has a spouse, a mom, a daughter, a sister — ought to all be respiration a sigh of aid,” O’Neill Burke mentioned.
“This man was a violent, serial predator who actually went out looking for his victims,” O’Neill Burke mentioned.
Snelling mentioned detectives tied Khodja to the crimes by DNA proof, video surveillance, statements from the victims and survivors, and the identification of the automotive that Khodja allegedly used.
Mayor Brandon Johnson applauded the costs in a Metropolis Corridor information convention, saying it exhibits the worth of selling extra detectives to work on unsolved circumstances.
“We promised the Logan Sq. group — particularly the survivors who’ve been preventing for justice for a really very long time — that we might apprehend this sick and wicked particular person and that we might in the end convey them to justice,” Johnson mentioned. “Right this moment we’re happy to announce that now we have taken step one towards justice and making certain that our victims’ experiences shall be, on the very least, honored by conviction.”
Assaults relationship to 2022
On Could 7, 2022, a 36-year-old girl entered her constructing within the 2000 block of North Humboldt Boulevard, the place Khodja was allegedly “mendacity in wait,” in accordance with prosecutors. He positioned a drawstring bag over her head and wrapped his arms round her neck, prosecutors mentioned. The lady screamed out, and Khodja allegedly eliminated the bag and fled, prosecutors mentioned.
On July 15, 2022, Khodja allegedly sexually assaulted a 21-year-old girl within the 800 block of West Wellington Avenue. The lady was strolling dwelling from a Lincoln Park bar when two males provided her a journey in a darkish sedan, prosecutors mentioned. Throughout the journey, the lads pulled over the automotive and received out as a second car pulled alongside them, prosecutors mentioned. Khodja allegedly entered the again seat with the sufferer and sexually assaulted her. The automotive then drove, and the girl was ultimately “shoved out,” in accordance with prosecutors.
Khodja’s gold Toyota Prius was captured on video footage following the black sedan, prosecutors mentioned.
Current assaults in Logan Sq.
On Jan. 18, Khodja, whereas carrying a hood and a masks, adopted a 36-year-old girl from a comfort retailer and pushed her in opposition to a fence, prosecutors mentioned. He allegedly held a knife to her facet and made her stroll towards the 2800 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue, the place he pressured her to the bottom and sexually assaulted her, in accordance with prosecutors. A Ford Fusion belonging to somebody who lives with Khodja was captured close to the scene.
On Jan. 22, Khodja allegedly requested a 21-year-old girl for a journey within the 2800 block of North Central Park Avenue, then adopted her and uncovered himself, in accordance with prosecutors. On this case, he faces misdemeanor costs of public indecency.
On Feb. 2 Khodja allegedly adopted a 21-year-old girl into the entryway of her constructing within the the 2600 block of North Troy Avenue, prosecutors mentioned. He held a knife to her neck and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors mentioned. The identical Ford Fusion was captured close by, about quarter-hour after the assault.
“The knife is on my neck the entire time,” the girl advised the Solar-Instances. “Each time I attempted to get louder, he would press it nearer.”
In all 4 felony circumstances, Khodja’s DNA was discovered on the sufferer or gadgets recovered from the scene, prosecutors mentioned.
No historical past of violence
Khodja has no prior arrests and “no historical past of violence, sexual or different,” in accordance with his public defender.
He has lived in Prepare dinner County together with his spouse for the final 4 years and works for Wonderful Chicago Limos. The corporate didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. Pretrial officers listed Khodja as a low threat for brand new legal exercise and failure to look in courtroom.
Decide Susana Ortiz ordered Khodja held pending trial for all felony counts, citing the amount of incidents, the concentrating on of “susceptible girls who’re out alone,” and his allegedly “emboldened” response to victims trying to struggle again.
“I discover that his actions in every of those incidents makes him a transparent and current hazard to every of those victims and to all females,” Ortiz mentioned.
Khodja is due again in courtroom this month.
