Wanted Chicago Man Facing New Charges Following Sheriff’s Police Fugitive Task Force Arrest (Cook County, IL) – The Cook County Sheriff’s Police Fugitive Apprehension Unit, in collaboration with the U.S. Marshals Task Force, located and charged a fugitive wanted for escaping from electronic monitoring while awaiting trial on a criminal sex assault case involving a child, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart announced today.
In October 2022, 48-year-old Jorge Mondragon-Bahena was court-ordered on the Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring Program after he was charged with Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault of a Minor under the age of 13. In March 2023, removed his GPS tracking device and left his assigned residence in the 3500 block of North Southport Avenue in Chicago. At the time, Sheriff’s Electronic Monitoring investigators made multiple attempts to locate him.
Mondragon-Bahena was declared a fugitive, and a Cook County arrest warrant was issued for Escape – Violation of Electronic Monitoring and for the underlying Predatory Criminal Sexual Assault charge.
In January, Fugitive Task Force investigators learned that Mondragon-Bahena was living in 8 Chicago under multiple aliases and working as a cook in an unknown local restaurant. Last week, they developed additional information that he was residing in the 4500 block of South Talman Avenue. Investigators traveled to that location where they found him and took him into custody without incident.
On March 7, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office approved felony escape charges. Mondragon-Bahena appeared for his initial court hearing the following day at the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse where he was ordered detained at the Cook County Jail.
The public is reminded that the defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Wanted Chicago Man Facing New Charges Following Sheriff’s Police Fugitive Task Force Arrest
