Forest Park Man Charged in Sexual Assault, Robbery

Police are crediting a community alert posted on a Chicago alderman's Facebook page in helping them to identify a 41-year-old Forest Park man as the suspect in two attacks on females on the northwest side of Chicago on April 13, according to a Chicago police news release. 

Antonio Lamont Nettles, 41, of the 7500 block of Harvard Street in Forest Park, faces the following charges: two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault and one count each of kidnapping—force or threat, attempted kidnapping and aggravated robbery. 

The attacks occurred between 9:45 and 10:30 a.m. on April 13 near Belmont and Oak Park in Chicago, according to WGN TV. Nettles is accused of sexually assaulting one of the women and robbing the other. 

Police said in the release that after a community alert was posted on Ald. Mary O'Connor's Facebook page, they received information that led to Nettles. 

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