CHICAGO – A convicted sex offender with a long, violent criminal history is now accused of randomly kidnapping a nurse from the parking lot of a Ukrainian village hospital and robbing her at knifepoint.
Judge Antara Rivera ordered 62-year-old Michael Perkins to remain in custody pending trial.
Prosecutors said the victim, a 43-year-old woman whose online profiles identify her as a nurse, was in the parking lot of Ascension St. Mary Hospital, 2216 West Thomas, when Perkins confronted her with a knife around 7:15 a.m. July 27.
He took three rings from the woman, worth $5,000, and demanded her money, prosecutors said. But the woman had no cash, so Perkins allegedly forced her to drive to a nearby Chase Bank.
Along the way he allegedly threatened the woman and warned that he knew where she worked.
The bank was closed, so he forced her to get back into her car so they could go to a second ATM. He ordered her to withdraw cash and confiscated the $400 she received, prosecutors alleged.
Officials said Perkins forced the woman to drive again, eventually ending up in an alley behind the 2900 block of West Shakespeare. He jumped out of the car and tried to use one of her credit cards at a McDonald’s in Lincoln Park.
Chicago police took a break when they learned Perkins presented his ID when he sold the woman’s rings at a jewelry store in Hermosa.
Police officers arrested Perkins on Monday when he appeared for his mandatory weekly sex offender registration. State data shows he was convicted of raping a 14-year-old when he was 19.
Perkins is charged with two counts of aggravated kidnapping and armed robbery.
According to court records, he was convicted in 1994 of eight counts of robbery and escape, receiving prison terms ranging from 10 to 21 years. One of the robberies included attempted murder charges, which prosecutors ultimately dropped. He was convicted in 2019 of possession of a stolen motor vehicle and sentenced to six years in prison.
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