A suspended Chicago police officer from the Austin District pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault Friday and was sentenced to two 12-year prison terms that will run concurrently with a 10-year sentence imposed in April for aggravated kidnapping in a third case.
Gilberto Perez, 28, of 3227 N. Sawyer Ave., Chicago, appeared before Cook County Circuit Judge Lawrence Fox and pleaded guilty to the latest charges.
In one case, said Assistant State’s Atty. Maria Burnett, Perez saw two 17-year-old women walking home from a party at 1 a.m. in April 1996 and lured them into his car.
Burnett said Perez then drove to the 4400 block of North Wolcott Avenue, locked his car doors, pulled his service revolver and asked, “Who wants to die first?”
He released one of the women after learning she was pregnant, but forced the other to commit a sex act, Burnett said.
She said Perez encountered the woman he had released in April as she waited for a bus in January 1997, forced her into his car at gunpoint and drove to the 2900 block of West Lawrence Avenue, where he forced her to have sex.
After being released, the victim took down his license plate number and called police, Burnett said. The victim later identified Perez and his car as being involved in both attacks, Burnett said.
Investigators subsequently connected him to the aggravated kidnapping, in which he forced a 23-year-old woman into his car at gunpoint and threatened to sexually assault her. Burnett said the victim was able to talk him out if it.
