C.B.P. News Release

Chicago CBP Officers Arrest Fugitive Sex Offender

(Thursday, August 19, 2010)

Chicago — On Aug. 18, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officers at Chicago O’Hare International Airport arrested Yuri Ermakov, 28, on a 2007 warrant for sexual assault. A fugitive for three years, Ermakov who was a high school coach, was convicted of a sex crime involving a student.

In July 2007, Ermakov, an assistant track coach at University High School in Champaign, Ill., was convicted of criminal sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl. He was also convicted of contributing to the delinquency of a minor for providing alcohol to two underage girls. While the jury was in deliberation on his court case, Ermakov fled to his native Russia.

Three years later, CBP officers at O’Hare apprehended Ermakov when he arrived on a flight from France and turned him over to the FBI and University of Illinois police in Champaign, Ill. after processing his arrival.

“CBP officers arrested this sex offender after a positive identity match revealed that he was the subject of a National Criminal Information Center or NCIC warrant,â€