Christian Gym Teacher Used Grindr to Rob Gay Men
Lake McHenry County Scanner.Perteet, a Waukegan resident who is married and has four children, has been charged with three counts of armed robbery and kidnapping with a firearm, plus one count of carjacking, for his alleged involvement in three separate attacks against men on Chicago’s West Side last summer.According to a news release from the Chicago Police Department, Perteet was arrested by members of the Vehicular Hijacking Task Force on March 26 in the 3000 block of South Sacramento Ave., in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.
He was identified by victims as the man who allegedly held them against their will and robbed them at gunpoint.The three victims included:All three crimes took place in the city’s North Lawndale neighborhood.Prosecutors claim that Perteet used Grindr to track down the victims and obtain their addresses under the guise of arranging a hookup.
He then attacked and robbed the men at gunpoint.Prosecutors also allege that Perteet had an accomplice who assisted in holding the men captive and demanded they hand over their personal banking information.Perteet appeared in Cook County court on March 27, at which time Judge Maryam Ahmad ordered him to be detained until trial, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.Perteet had previously been arrested in January for his alleged role in a home invasion on October 8.
He was not charged.According to prosecutors, Perteet and his accomplice allegedly spotted a man with whom Perteet had conversed on Grindr walking his dog in Cicero, Illinois, according to CWB Chicago.
