O'Hare CBP Agent Luis Uribe Goes on Trial Over Alleged Sexual Assaults of Four Women in Schaumburg, Naperville Hotels

A federal trial opened this week in Chicago for Luis Uribe, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent who worked at O'Hare International Airport, on charges that he sexually assaulted and robbed four women in suburban hotel rooms in 2022.

Prosecutors allege Uribe attacked the women, all Chinese nationals, on six separate occasions between February and October of that year, using his federal badge and service weapon to threaten them into sex or to take money and property from them. The alleged assaults took place in hotel rooms in Schaumburg and Naperville, according to an indictment filed against Uribe late last year.

In opening statements, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Shih told jurors that Uribe abused a position of trust. "The defendant had a responsibility to serve and protect," Shih said. "Instead, he robbed and he raped."

Uribe's defense attorney, Michael Clancy, rejected the allegations outright and attacked the credibility of the four accusers. "They are hustlers. They are prostitutes. They are liars," Clancy told the jury. He argued the encounters were consensual arrangements involving women his client had paid for sex, not assaults. "They played him like a fiddle," Clancy said. "He is the perfect mark, an immigration police officer."

Prosecutors say concerns about Uribe surfaced within weeks of the earliest alleged incidents. By March 2022, according to the government's account, a woman who said she had previously been paid by Uribe for sex photographed him during a lunch meeting and shared the image with other women. That same woman also offered him free sex if he would stop attacking women, prosecutors said. The alleged assaults continued anyway, according to the indictment.

One of the women reported the matter to Schaumburg police in October 2022, prosecutors said, which set off the investigation that led to charges. Investigators have said they gathered DNA evidence and tollway records placing Uribe near the Schaumburg hotel where the final alleged assault occurred.

According to information presented in court, Uribe's service weapon was taken away and he was reassigned to desk duty soon after the first police report was filed. It remains unclear whether he is still employed by the Department of Homeland Security. A spokesperson said federal privacy rules prevent the agency from commenting on personnel matters tied to an individual case.

All four women who say they were assaulted are expected to testify during the trial, along with the DNA and location evidence prosecutors have described.

Uribe was ordered detained after his arrest last year on the sexual assault and robbery charges tied to the Schaumburg and Naperville incidents. The trial is set to continue this week with additional witness testimony.