Uribe testified encounters were consensual, denied raping anyone
Luis Uribe, a Customs and Border Protection officer assigned to O’Hare International Airport, was convicted Thursday by a federal jury in Chicago on all charges stemming from a series of attacks between February and October 2022. The jury found him guilty of 10 counts of deprivation of rights under color of law and one count of brandishing a firearm during a violent crime, according to United Press International.
U.S. District Judge Jorge L. Alonso set sentencing for Jan. 21. The convictions carry a mandatory minimum of seven years to life in federal prison. Uribe was indicted in 2025; his lawyers sought to have the indictment dismissed, alleging misconduct by prosecutors, but the judge denied the motion, according to court records.
Prosecutors said Uribe entered the hotel rooms of four women of Chinese descent who were working as prostitutes in Schaumburg and Naperville. He showed his CBP badge and threatened them with a firearm issued by the agency, according to trial evidence. In one account detailed by prosecutors, Uribe followed a woman to her hotel room and forced his way in. He threatened her with a knife and attempted to assault her but was interrupted by a knock on the door, and she later moved hotels to avoid him.
Court records described another incident in which a woman told authorities that her boss asked her to obtain a photograph of Uribe to circulate to others as word of his attacks spread. The boss also instructed her to persuade Uribe to stop attacking women in exchange for free sexual favors, the records said. The arrangement failed because Uribe “did not abide by the terms of the bargain,” according to documents.
Uribe, a former Marine who has worked for the federal government since 2009, according to The New York Times, took the witness stand in his own defense. The Chicago Tribune reported that Uribe testified the relations he had with the women were consensual. “I never raped anybody in my whole life. I never robbed anybody in my whole life,” the Tribune quoted him saying. His lawyers argued that while Uribe had visited sex workers, the accusations against him were false.