West Side man tied to several robberies, 2 sex assaults after great Police work catches him

A West Side man whom Chicago police called a one-man crime spree was charged this morning in connection with three West Side armed robberies, including one in which he sexually assaulted two of his victims, authorities said this morning.
Darrion Grossley, 22, was charged with armed robbery in three business holdups that occurred late last month and early this month, some of which involved the robbery of store employees, authorities said. He is suspected in several others. The crimes all appeared to have occurred in the area of Madison Street and Pulaski Road in the East Garfield Park neighborhood, police sources said. Grossley was held without bail following a court hearing midday today.
Grossley has not been charged in eight robberies, as previously reported, but with eight counts of robbery in the three incidents that involved eight victims
Grossley, of the 4000 block of West Maypole Avenue, was also charged with aggravated assault with a firearm for threatening someone with a handgun and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault after he attacked two of his victims after robbing them, police sources said. The sex assaults both took place during the same robbery of two victims
Assistant State’s Attorney Koula Fournier said Grossley been charged with three robberies and is suspected in others. In all three in which he is charged, he entered stores wearing a black mask, dressed in all black, and was carrying a black semiautomatic handgun.
The first was on Christmas Eve at 1:30 p.m. at a convenience store in the 4000 block of West Madison Street. He ordered the owner and security guard to the floor and took $200 from the register and $25 from the guard.
Three days later, on Dec. 27, 2011, at 8:05 p.m., he entered a nail salon in the same block and ordered a man and two female employees into a back bathroom, where he robbed them of cash and ordered the man “to translate into Vietnamese” for him. Through the impromptu translator, he ordered both women to remove their clothing and sexually assaulted them repeatedly at gunpoint. He then fled with $2,750 from the register.
On Jan. 5, at 2:40 p.m., he robbed a shoe store in 4000 block of West Madison, ordering two employees and a customer to the rear of the store and taking their cell phones and $200 from the register. When another employee came in during the robbery, he struck that victim in the head with the gun and took $100 in cash from him.
Investigators were able to get a good description of the suspect from surveillance footage. Grossley was arrested Tuesday when police spotted him on the block and noticed he matched the description of the offender. They tried question him and he ran. After a short foot chase he was caught with a black mask on him. The victims identified him in a “voice lineup” as the offender, and he gave a statement admitted to the robberies but not the sexual assaults.