CHICAGO — A convicted sex offender with a long, violent criminal history is now accused of randomly kidnapping a nurse from a Ukrainian Village hospital parking lot 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 at Ascension St. Mary Hospital, 2216 West Thomas, when Perkins confronted her with a knife around 7:15 a.m. on July 27.
He took three rings from the woman, valued at $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, warning that he knew where she worked.
The bank was closed, so he forced her back into her car so they could go to a second ATM. He ordered her to withdraw cash and took the $400 she received, prosecutors alleged.
Officials said Perkins again forced the woman to drive, eventually winding up in an alley behind the 2900 block of West Shakespeare. He bailed out of the car and tried to use one of her credit cards at a McDonald’s in Lincoln Park.
Chicago cops caught a break when they learned that Perkins presented his state ID when he sold the woman’s rings to a jewelry store in Hermosa.
Police officers arrested Perkins on Monday when he showed up for his mandatory weekly sex offender registration. State records show 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 of eight counts of robbery and escape in 1994, receiving sentences ranging from 10 to 21 years. One of the robbery cases included attempted murder charges that prosecutors eventually dropped. He was convicted of possessing a stolen motor vehicle in 2019 and received a six-year sentence.
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