James Whiteside, of the 600 block of West Deming Street on the North Side, was charged with aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, armed robbery, aggravated vehicular hijacking, vehicular invasion, attempted aggravated criminal sexual assault with a weapon, aggravated battery of a child under the age of 13, and armed robbery.
Whiteside is scheduled to appear in court on Saturday.
The new charges involve attacks that happened the day before and the day after the pair of Dec. 27 attacks in which he’s already being held without bail -- which occurred near the Orange Line at Midway Airport and in the Montclare neighborhood on the Northwest Side.
Whiteside was identified as the person who, while armed with a knife, sexually assaulted a woman in the 7000 block of North Clark Street on Dec. 26, 2013, before taking her money and fleeing in her vehicle. Two days later, he was also identified as the offender who entered the vehicle of a 29 year old woman in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue, and demanded her money and car keys while holding a knife. The woman’s child was also in the car during this incident Whiteside placed a knife to her neck while she was holding her 3-year-old daughter. He demanded money and the keys to her car. He then grabbed the victim by the neck and snatched her cell phone, which he broke into pieces after it rang.
When Whiteside saw the woman’s husband walking up, he fled through a parking lot.
On Dec. 30, Whiteside was held without bail in connection with the two Dec. 27 attacks.
The first of those happened in the Montclare neighborhood about 2:30 a.m. on Dec. 27. Whiteside attacked a woman trying to get into her car after leaving a White Castle restaurant near Belmont and Harlem avenues, according to police. The attacker pushed his victim into her car as she opened the driver-side door and, holding a pair of 3-inch scissors and covering her mouth, told her not to scream.
The woman told police she noticed the man as she walked into the White Castle but didn’t pay much attention to him because she thought he was homeless, according to the report.
The man threatened to kill her, then drove her to a nearby side street and raped her. The man then kept her in the car, drove until the car broke down on Diversey Avenue and threw her car keys away.
He took the woman's phone and debit card and walked her to a bank to try to withdraw money. The two walked to a nearby gas station and the attacker used $50 he stole from the woman to pay a stranger for a ride to his aunt house in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood, according to the report. They stopped at a McDonald's along the way.
The attacker gave some of the woman's money to people at his aunt's house, according to the arrest report. He then called a cab, took two children and the victim with him to a McDonald's and then to Harlem and Belmont avenues where he dropped her off. He told her not to say anything to anyone and then left.
The woman went to a building a few blocks away and called 911. She told police the man said his name was "James" but that "she should call him Mr. White or (Sergeant) Nelson" .
The second attack happened about 4:15 p.m. that same day in a secured parking lot off the Orange Line at Midway Airport. Chicago police warned people in the area to be vigilant after the attack.
Police said the attacker pushed a 69-year-old woman into her car as she opened her door and demanded money from her before he raped her, according to a police report. He tried to leave the lot by driving the woman's car but couldn't find a parking card, so he told the woman to be quiet and duck while he used her money to fill out a parking slip and pay the attendant, according to the police report.
The woman feared for her life because her attacker drove her to the West Side and repeatedly threatened her, according to the police report.
While driving around the West Side, her attacker "purchased narcotics" twice and picked up a woman he knew, drove to a liquor store and used the 69-year-old's ATM card to get $200, according to the report. He dropped the woman off at a bus stop and she told the attacker to be careful, according to the report. He then left the victim and her car in the West Garfield Park neighborhood at Madison Street and Pulaski Road.
The victim called 911 but left the area to report the crime from closer to home, according to the report.
After the 911 call, two more withdrawals were made from the woman's bank account, for a total of $300, according to the police report.
Whiteside "implicated himself" in the attacks in conversations with other people and gave details consistent with the victim's account, according to his arrest report in Dec. 27 attacks. He told residents he "robbed and raped a woman the night before," according to the report.
Detectives were in the West Humboldt Park neighborhood when Whiteside showed up to a building where detectives were investigating and tried to run when he learned detectives were there, according to the report.
They chased him into a basement stairwell in the 4100 block of West Crystal Street and he was arrested there
