Man accused of sex crime against minor in North Dakota tracked down in Cook County

MELROSE PARK, Ill. — A man accused of a sex crime against a minor in North Dakota is in custody after he was tracked down by authorities in Cook County earlier this month.

According to the Cook County Sheriff’s Office, 49-year-old Hugo Osbaldo Gomez was wanted on a warrant out of Cass County, North Dakota, on charges of gross sexual imposition and corruption of a minor.

Amid an investigation, authorities eventually learned that Gomez was allegedly living with a family friend in Melrose Park.

Authorities began surveillance on the home and were eventually able to catch Gomez after they spotted him and a woman leaving the home before getting into a car parked outside.

Police followed the car into Hillside, where they then conducted a traffic stop on the car. Officers were then able to determine that Gomez was the man sitting in the passenger seat of the car.

Following the stop, Gomez was taken into custody and transferred to the Cook County jail, where he was held until his extradition to North Dakota on Aug. 10.