LAKE CO., Ill. - A Chicago man was arrested and charged in connection with the sexual assault and extortion of a suburban teenage girl.

Montreal M. Montgomery, 22, was charged with criminal sexual assault, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, aggravated domestic battery, aggravated battery, and traveling to meet a minor, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.

What we know:

On Sept. 1, Lake County sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Helendale Road and Rollins Road in Ingleside for a report of a child on the ground.

Responding deputies found the girl and learned she had been shoved out of a moving car. She was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Investigators later learned the girl had met Montgomery, of Chicago, on social media earlier thi

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