DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert B. Berlin and Winfield Chief of Police David Schar announced last week that bond had been set for a former Central DuPage Hospital employee accused of taking a patient’s cellular phone and illegally sending sensitive, personal photographs from her cellular phone to his cellular phone.
Mark Luis, 33, of 783 Waterside Drive, South Elgin, appeared in bond court on April 28, where Judge Dieden set bond at $150,000 with 10% to apply. Luis voluntarily turned himself in to the DuPage County Sheriff’s Office earlier today.
It is alleged that on November 12, 2016, while at Central DuPage Hospital, the victim entered her password and used her cellular phone in front of Luis, who was a nurse at the hospital. While at the hospital, the victim was not allowed to have her phone with her for a brief time and consequently the phone was left at a nurses’ station. It is alleged that Luis removed the phone from the nurses’ station, entered the victim’s password and sent more than sixty images and six videos of the victim to his personal cellular phone.
The alleged behavior was uncovered when the victim synced the phone to her iCloud account when she got home and discovered that numerous photographs and videos were allegedly sent from her phone to a phone number that she did not know and that all the images and videos were sent when the phone was not in her possession.
An investigation led by the Winfield Police Department with assistance from the State’s Attorney’s Office led to Luis. On April 19, 2017, Judge Richard Russo issued a $200,000 arrest warrant for Luis, who is charged with one count of Non-Consensual Dissemination of Private Sexual Images, a Class 4 Felony, and one count of Computer Tampering, also a Class 4 Felony. His next court appearance is scheduled for May 8, 2017.
Members of the public are reminded that this complaint contains only charges and is not proof of the defendant’s guilt.
