Two illegal migrants, including one wearing an ankle monitor, allegedly murdered a Chicago man they met on a dating app — then used his credit card to spend thousands on Amazon purchases.
Jefferson Ubilla-Delgado, 29, from Venezuela, and Geiderwuin Bello Morales, 21, from Ecuador were charged with first-degree murder and robbery in the death of George Levin, 63, who they met on Grindr, Chicago police said.
Both men are undocumented immigrants, sources told The Chicago Sun-Times.
The pair of brutes allegedly beat Levin, then tied him up with duct tape and electrical cords and stuffed a sock in his mouth.
Surveillance video captured the suspects leaving their apartment that night with Bello Morales holding a roll of duct tape. Soon after, they were at the home Levin shared with his 65-year-old sister, who reported hearing loud noises from his downstairs apartment.
When she checked on her brother, she ran into Bello Morales and asked him: “Is my brother OK?”
Bello Morales told her everything was fine and that her brother would call her soon, according to the report.
Two hours later when she went to check on her brother, she found both the door to his home and his bedroom locked.
After breaking in, she found Levin partially clothed, tied up and gagged, prosecutors said. According to his sister, he was “cold to the touch” when she found him.
Other surveillance footage later captured Bello Morales and Ubilla-Delgado trying to use Levin’s cards and phone to make purchases at a vape shop and gas station.
The men also made four Amazon purchases on his phone totaling over $4,000, eventually causing his Bank of America account to become locked, according to the report.
Bello Morales had been wearing a Department of Homeland Security ankle monitor at the time of the killing following a Jan. 12 arrest.
In that incident, he was charged with a misdemeanor count of assault for allegedly “gesturing toward” a 12-year-old girl to lure her to his car, the Sun-Times reported.
He is due back in court on Feb. 25 in that case.
Both were ordered to be held on Saturday.
“I can’t overlook the horrifying nature of this crime,” Judge William Fahy said. “To call this a violent crime is an understatement.”
Bello Morales, who came to the US from Ecuador a year ago, and Ubilla-Delgado, who came from Venezuela about a year and a half ago, are due back in court Thursday.
