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Warrant Issued for Suspect in Attacks on API Women

By Associated Press

Police have issued an arrest warrant for a man suspected in a series of attacks on women of Asian descent.

The suspect, Mark Anthony Lewis, 33, of Chicago, is believed to have fled to the Philippines, Chicago police said Friday.

The FBI has also obtained a federal fugitive warrant.

Lewis was identified by victims through photographs, police said. Clothing and other items described by the victims were found at Lewis’ last known address in Chicago, police said.

The string of nine physical and sexual assaults since April 7 have spread fear through Chicago’s Asian American communities. Seven of the assaults were on women of Asian descent. One victim was an Asian American girl and one was a Latino woman who police said may have looked “Asian” to her attacker.

The attacker has posed as a census taker, a police officer, an FBI agent and an immigration officer to get into the women’s homes. The most recent attack was July 19.

A Philippine immigration disembarkation card shows that a man named Mark Anthony Lewis arrived in Manila on July 21 from Japan. He entered on a tourist visa, giving his U.S. residence as Chicago.

Immigration officials said they contacted U.S. immigration officers at the U.S. Embassy in Manila, but gave no other details. The embassy was closed for the weekend. Manila and Washington have an extradition treaty.