A federal jury convicted a customs agent on all 11 counts Thursday, Sept. 17, for sexually assaulting and robbing two women and robbing and attempting to sexually assault two others at Naperville and Schaumburg hotels in 2022.

Luis Uribe, 45, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent stationed at O'Hare International Airport, was found guilty of 10 counts of deprivation of civil rights under color of law and one count of brandishing a firearm during a crime of violence. The jury of six men and six women reached its verdict one day after closing arguments at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse in Chicago, ABC7 Chicago reported.

Uribe faces a mandatory minimum of seven years in federal prison and a maximum of life. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 21.

What prosecutors alleged

Federal prosecutors said Uribe brandished his service weapon and CBP badge to force four women, all of Chinese descent, to submit to sex or hand over cash on six separate occasions between February and October 2022.

One alleged victim was staying at a Naperville hotel when Uribe allegedly forced his way into her room, identified himself as police, demanded cash and sexually assaulted her, according to the Chicago Tribune. That woman moved to a different room after the alleged attack, but Uribe allegedly assaulted her again there. She then switched hotels and planned to leave Chicago, but prosecutors said Uribe attacked her a third time, striking her in the face when she screamed.

Another alleged victim, a 67-year-old woman from New York, testified that a man entered her room at a Schaumburg Days Inn and immediately showed a badge. The Chicago Sun-Times reported she sobbed on the stand as she described the encounter.

Prosecutors also presented DNA evidence found on hotel bedding and FBI tollway data and Google Maps searches that placed Uribe at or near the hotels when the alleged assaults occurred.

Uribe's testimony

Uribe appeared in court on crutches Tuesday, Sept. 15, dressed in a maroon collared shirt. He nodded at family members in the gallery before staring straight ahead, the Tribune reported.

"I never hit any women in my life," Uribe told the jury. "It was always consensual."

During cross-examination, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jonathan Shih told Uribe, "You were hiding your true self from your family just like you're hiding yourself from this jury."

Competing narratives

The defense and prosecution offered sharply different explanations for a March 2022 lunch meeting at a seafood buffet in Hoffman Estates. Uribe testified he was offered $7,000 "plus free sex" in exchange for helping with immigration problems. Prosecutors contend the meeting was an alleged victim asking Uribe to stop attacking sex workers in exchange for free services.

In closing arguments Wednesday, Sept. 16, Shih called Uribe "a rapist in a police uniform" and said the defense theory of a conspiracy to frame Uribe was "100 percent insane," the Tribune reported.

Background

Uribe, a Pingree Grove resident, joined CBP in 2009 after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1999 to 2003. A federal grand jury indicted him in December 2025. He was arrested Dec. 9, 2025, and has been held in federal custody since.

Schaumburg police initially investigated after a victim reported the alleged assaults in October 2022 but dropped the case after the victims were reluctant to give interviews and moved out of state, retired Sgt. Douglas Leschewski testified. Within a day of police issuing a bulletin with Uribe's photo, someone from the Chicago Police Department identified him as a CBP employee, according to Tribune reporting.

The trial began Sept. 9 before U.S. District Judge Jorge Alonso.