Civil Rights Prosecutions

A U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer has been indicted on charges alleging he sexually assaulted and robbed four women at hotels in Schaumburg and Naperville, Illinois, during multiple incidents in 2022. Prosecutors say he used his badge, service weapon and later a knife to force entry, demand money and coerce sexual acts — with one victim, who worked in the sex industry, reportedly robbed multiple times — and forensic analysis tied him to the hotels through travel records and Google Maps searches.