The former owner of a tanning salon on Chicago's Near West Side facing multiple sexual assault charges posted bond and was released from jail Tuesday, according to the Cook County Sheriff's office.
Marc Winner, 45, who previously owned Soleil Tanning Salon at 1018 W. Madison, was charged in late July with a fourth count of sexual assault related to an alleged incident in 2010, according to a statement from the Cook County state’s attorney’s office.
On Sept. 28, 2010, a 30-year-old female acquaintance allegedly gave Winner a ride from a local bar to his mother’s apartment in the 5400 block of North Sheridan, the state’s attorney’s office said. The woman went inside the apartment with him but later tried to leave, at which point he restrained and held her at knifepoint.
He then cut her dress, shoved her on the couch and sexually assaulted her, prosecutors said. The victim reported the incident two months later.
Winner was charged after she identified him in a photo array compiled from the three other cases, the state’s attorney’s office said.
His bond was set at $25,000 for that case, prosecutors said, but he was held at the Cook County Jail without bail until his court appearance on Tuesday, according to the sheriff's office.
Bond was posted Tuesday evening and Winner left the jail around 7:30 p.m., sheriff's spokesperson Sophia Ansari said.
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In addition to the 2010 case, Winner is accused of sexually assaulting a former employee in 2009 and sexually assaulting two customers in 2012 and 2015, prosecutors said. He is facing multiple sexual assault and kidnapping charges in those cases.
