CHICAGO — A Milwaukee woman, part of a group that officials said drugged, robbed, and sometimes beat men they met at downtown Chicago nightclubs, has been sentenced to six years in prison for her crimes.
Jasmine Ross, 35, pleaded guilty to two counts of robbery plus identity theft and aggravated battery in exchange for the sentence from Judge Anjana Hansen.
Two women accused of being accomplices, also from Milwaukee, skipped bail in April 2023 and haven’t been seen since. Arrest warrants remain active for Anesha Robinson, 35, and Felicia Anderson, 36.
In the more violent allegation, prosecutors said the women lured a 24-year-old man into a car that he thought was his Uber outside a club early one Saturday in February 2020.
The women drove the man around, attacking and robbing him, until a Chicago police unit pulled up behind the vehicle and saw what was happening, according to prosecutors.
Two police officers reported pulling up behind a rental car that Anderson was driving on the 2000 block of North Sedgwick around 3:30 a.m. The cops said they saw Robinson beating a man in the vehicle’s back seat while Ross kneeled on the front passenger seat and threw punches, too.
Officers who pulled alongside the rental car said they saw Ross and Robinson going through the man’s pockets. Anderson allegedly sped away from the police, and the victim was dumped from her moving vehicle. But Anderson later pulled over for other officers on the 1000 block of West North Ave, according to police records.
Cops said Robinson tried to throw the man’s phone down a sewer when they ordered her out of the vehicle. Two of the man’s credit cards were also allegedly taken.
The victim, who lived in Lincoln Park, was admitted for treatment at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with a fractured nose, fractured cheekbone, and cuts and bruises to his face, arms, and head, police said.
Another man reported being similarly lured and robbed in the downtown area about two weeks before the women were arrested, accounting for the second robbery charge.
While the robbery cases were pending, Ross was arrested again for allegedly stealing a man’s identity after offering him a ride outside the Hangge Uppe, 14 West Elm, in September 2022.
Prosecutors said he told investigators he had no memory of what happened after Ross offered him a drink.
While the man was unconscious, someone took his phone and credit cards, which were then used to conduct transactions worth more than $10,000.
Chicago police detectives pulled video of two transactions allegedly showing Ross using the man’s card at Walmart stores in Hammond and Kenosha. Prosecutors claimed she also sent herself $3,500 from the man’s bank via Zelle.
Ross is expected to be paroled in June 2025.
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