Hooked--Cook County Cop Caught Picking Up Prostitute And Menacing Her With Gun For Sex: Police

A Cook County Sheriff’s deputy allegedly menaced a Chicago prostitute at gunpoint after luring her into his car.

Fernando Rodriguez, 52, of River Grove was charged with felony counts of attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault, aggravated unlawful restraint and official misconduct in connection with the 1 a.m. New Year’s Eve incident on North Avers Avenue near West Le Moyne Street.

Rodriguez “persuaded a 37-year-old female victim to enter his vehicle,” police said. “He subsequently prevented her from exiting his car and attempted to sexually assault her while armed with a handgun.”

Rodriguez’s car was double-parked and blocking an alley, according to a story in the Chicago Tribune, and when police noticed him “sheriff’s Deputy Fernando B. Rodriguez tried to wave them off, saying: ‘It’s OK guys, I’m on the job,’ according to court documents.”

Police called the woman who got out of Rodriguez’s car a “known prostitute,” the Tribune story said. She “got out of the passenger seat and told the officers Rodriguez asked her to enter the car, then told her he was a police officer and displayed a holstered handgun, according to court documents.”

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