ROGERS PARK — Thinking a woman simply needed a ride, a Chicago man told authorities he accidentally picked up a prostitute on the North Side, then drove to a police station to enlist officers' help getting away from her.
Police arrested the woman after she followed him into the police station and during an argument told officers: "I was out prostituting ... and this guy wouldn't let me out," according to police.
The bizarre drama played out Sept. 16 at the Rogers Park Police District station at 6464 N. Clark St.
Police said the 39-year-old man walked into the station at 12:30 a.m. followed by a 19-year-old woman.
The two were quarreling, and officers tried to quiet them. That's when Britany Cuevas told them she was "out prostituting," according to police.
Officers then arrested Cuevas and held the man for questioning, according to a police report of the incident. They released the man.
The man told officers he picked up the woman near Devon and Claremont avenues earlier that night.
She had approached his car asking for help while he sat parked talking on his cellphone, he said. She told him she’d been stranded and needed a ride somewhere, he told police.
After letting her in, he told the woman he was going to meet a friend at Clark and Devon before driving her where she needed to go, police said.
She told him she would do whatever he wanted her to do to make him happy, and all she asked in return was a predetermined amount of money. The man said he realized at that point she didn’t need help, was in fact a prostitute, and stopped the vehicle to order her out, according to police.
The woman at first refused to get out, before changing her mind and saying she would get out, for money, according to police.
The man then drove to the Rogers Park Police District station, near Clark and Devon, and went inside for help.
The woman followed him through the entrance and invented the story about him refusing to let her out of the car, police said.
The man said he did not want to press charges; he just wanted her out of his car. Police, however, charged her with misdemeanor prostitution.
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