CHICAGO — After prosecutors accused Rayshawn Warship of robbing two people at gunpoint, including one victim who was standing next to a Chicago police surveillance camera, they asked Judge Caroline Glennon-Goodman to keep him in custody as a public safety risk.
The judge refused and sent Warship home on electronic monitoring. Now, prosecutors say, Warship robbed and pistol-whipped a tattoo artist who came into his home to provide services to a woman.
Coincidentally, Glennon-Goodman was reassigned to traffic court this month after she circulated an image of a fake toy called “My First Ankle Monitor” that included a rendering of a Black toddler wearing an electronic monitoring bracelet.
On January 24, a 36-year-old tattoo artist went to Warship’s home in the 10300 block of South Lowe to do tattoos for a woman who contacted him via Instagram, according to Warship’s latest arrest report.
While the artist worked, Warship entered the room while armed with a pistol and an extended ammunition magazine, the report said. He went through the victim’s pockets, handed the man’s valuables to a second person, and then struck the victim in the face with the handgun, officials said.
The victim ran away and called the police. He told officers that Warship took about $200 cash and the keys to his 2015 Audi, which was missing, the report said.
Warship answered the door when police knocked and they took him into custody. His arrest report notes that he was wearing an ankle monitor on his left leg.
Judge Mary Marubio detained him on fresh counts of armed robbery and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
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In late August, Warship and an accomplice were charged with robbing two victims within a matter of minutes. At about 8:15 a.m. on August 27, a 41-year-old man was walking home from taking his nephew to school when a gray SUV pulled up near him in the 3300 block of West Polk.
The alleged accomplice got out of the passenger seat, pointed a gun at the man’s face and searched the man’s pants for valuables. While that was happening, Warship allegedly pointed a gun at the victim from the SUV’s driver’s seat.
The pair fled with the man’s credit card, driver’s license, and $1,430 cash.
About five minutes later, a 30-year-old man was robbed while waiting for his cousin to pick him up to take him for a haircut in the 1100 block of North Lawndale. When a silver SUV pulled up, he thought it was his cousin. It was not. The occupants were wearing ski masks.
He tried to get away, but the accomplice jumped out of the passenger seat with a gun and threatened him, saying, “Do not move. I will blow your head off.”
The victim had been talking with his wife on the phone when the robbery began. He told police that Warship got out of the SUV with a gun, took the device away, got on the phone with his wife, and threatened to kill him.
A CPD surveillance camera was rolling just steps away, and a cop was watching the feed live. The department immediately sent patrol cars to the scene.
Warship and his partner fled with the phone, about $60, and two bags of weed, prosecutors said.
Officers arrived as the robbery was ending and pursued the silver SUV until it crashed. Both men bailed out on foot and ran into the home of a complete stranger, prosecutors said.
The police arrested Warship there. His accomplice bolted from the house and was caught in a nearby field. Police allegedly found $1,430 in his pants pocket.
Cops also found a pistol in an alley that the men ran through. In the SUV, they found two more guns and a driver’s license belonging to one of the victims, said prosecutors.
A CPD report documenting the arrest said cops found “multiple” phones and wallets in the vehicle, too.
Judge Glennon-Goodman kept the accomplice in jail because he had just gotten off parole for a gun case. But she refused to keep Warship in custody.
Before being reassigned this month, Glennon-Goodman was the second most lenient of the pretrial division’s nine judges when considering detention petitions. CWBChicago found last year that she rejected nearly half of all detention requests, while the pretrial division overall approved about 66% of such petitions.
