Additional Charges Filed Against Man Accused Of Assault, Battery

PALATINE, IL — Ryan Storm, the 20-year-old Palatine man charged with kidnapping, sexually assaulting and beating a woman in Lake Barrington last month, will face more criminal charges after prosecutors filed additional Class X felonies in June.

Storm is charged with eight more counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault, four counts of aggravated kidnapping and one count added to each aggravated domestic battery and aggravated battery charge.

Storm was originally charged with eight counts total. He has yet to make a plea to any of the charges and is scheduled to be back in court on June 16. Aggravated criminal sexual assault and aggravated kidnapping counts are Class X felonies and carry a mandatory sentencing of six to 30 years in prison.

Authorities credit an observant acquaintance of Storm's for saving the young woman's life, according to a release from the Lake County Sheriff's office, who received a strange call from him and went to his work to check on his well-being.

There, the person found a woman tied to a forklift. She'd been brutalized and sexually assaulted, authorities said. Prosecutor's at Storm's first hearing said he and the woman knew one another.

"I firmly believe that the victim's life was saved because of the gut feeling the caller had, and the caller taking the further step of checking on the situation in the middle of the night," said Lake County Sheriff John D. Idleburg.

Police conducted a large manhunt for Storm and he was eventually found and taken into custody on May 19. He is being held on a $3 million bail.