Migrant robbed woman at gunpoint in Streeterville just 3 days after getting off electronic monitoring: prosecutors

CHICAGO — A Venezuelan migrant is facing armed robbery charges after he allegedly robbed a Streeterville woman at gunpoint just three days after being released from electronic monitoring in a different case.

Judge Deidre Dyer ordered Edmonds Peraza Cortez, 25, detained as a safety risk while he awaits trial on a charge of armed robbery.

A 41-year-old woman told police that she was outside her building in the 400 block of East Illinois when Cortez pulled his Divvy bike in front of her and displayed a gun…

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