Cops: Cook tried to sexually attack girl in Grayslake eatery
Evidence that required about two months to process at a regional crime laboratory has led to a charge against a Grayslake restaurant cook who authorities say tried to sexually attack a teenage co-worker in September.
Grayslake police Operations Cmdr. Matt McCutcheon said officers were alarmed when they arrived at Rudy's Mexican Grill on Route 83 because they found the suspect and a 15-year-old girl unconscious and both naked or partially clothed on the floor with blood near them.
However, McCutcheon said, it turned out the blood was unrelated to the crime scene.
Emman Hernandez-Jaimes, 29, of the 300 block of Grandview Drive in Round Lake Park, was charged in a warrant with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, police said.
Hernandez-Jaimes was arrested on the warrant at his home Nov. 23. He is free on bond, pending an appearance Dec. 10 in Lake County circuit court.
McCutcheon said police were summoned about 11 p.m. Sept. 26 to Rudy's when someone entered an unlocked door and noticed Hernandez-Jaimes and the girl unconscious on the floor.
Police said Hernandez-Jaimes and the teenager had been drinking alcohol together in the restaurant.
“Hernandez attempted to sexually assault the 15-year-old female, but he was physically unable to accomplish this act,” McCutcheon said.
An investigation determined the blood was spread on the eatery's walls and around the front door after Hernandez-Jaimes cut himself earlier in the day while working in the kitchen, McCutcheon said.
“It was alarming to the officers,” he added.
McCutcheon said the girl was taken to Advocate Condell Medical in Libertyville, where physical evidence was obtained and forwarded to the Northern Illinois Police Crime Laboratory for analysis.
Grayslake investigators interviewed Hernandez-Jaimes, the teen and the witness who entered Rudy's that night, authorities said. The arrest warrant for Hernandez-Jaimes was obtained from a Lake County judge after the crime lab completed its work on the evidence, said McCutcheon.
McCutcheon said Hernandez-Jaimes was positively identified through a Mexican government identification card issued to him.