A Portage Park man accused of screaming racial slurs before stabbing a woman on West Addison Street has pleaded guilty and walked away with probation rather than a prison sentence. Andres Stathoulopoulos, now facing a resolved case more than a year after the attack, entered his plea to one hate-crime charge and one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, according to court records.
Per court records reviewed by ABC7 Chicago, Stathoulopoulos was sentenced to two years of probation along with a 180-day suspended sentence, and he was credited with 429 days already served. The plea closes out a case that began just after 11 p.m. on July 8, 2025, in the 5700 block of West Addison Street, where prosecutors say Stathoulopoulos approached a woman and a Black man as they were heading into a home.
Slurs, Threats, Then a Knife
Prosecutors alleged that Stathoulopoulos began screaming threats and racial slurs at the pair before the confrontation turned violent, according to the Chicago Tribune. The woman, 42, suffered a deep cut on the top of her left wrist that required four stitches, the newspaper reported. She was 42 years old at the time, and police said Stathoulopoulos was 20.
Stathoulopoulos wasn't arrested immediately. Schiller Park police took him into custody in the west suburb on July 30, 2025, roughly three weeks after the stabbing, per the Tribune's reporting. He originally faced two hate-crime counts and one count of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon before the case resolved in a single hate-crime plea.
Judge Cited “Racial Hatred” in Ordering Him Held
When Stathoulopoulos first appeared in court, Cook County Judge Antara Nath Rivera ordered him held while awaiting trial, finding that the alleged conduct was motivated to act out of “racial hatred” and citing his recent history of arrests and convictions, the Tribune reported. That detention order came before the plea deal that ultimately produced probation and time served rather than additional prison time.
A Familiar Pattern In Cook County Hate-Crime Cases
The outcome echoes a pattern documented by the Chicago Reporter, which found that of 36 white defendants convicted of hate crimes in Cook County over a 10-year span, only 12 were sentenced to prison. The same analysis found that white defendants received probation in 60% of cases, compared with just 22% of Black defendants.
That disparity played out in another closely watched Chicago-area case. Timothy Trybus was found guilty of two hate-crime counts for verbally assaulting Anairis “Mia” Irizarry over her Puerto Rican flag T-shirt at a North Side forest preserve in 2018, and he ultimately received two years of probation and 200 hours of community service — what the Reporter described as the minimum possible sentence — after spending 27 days at the Cook County Department of Corrections.
The Chicago Police Department tracks reported hate-crime incidents, the neighborhoods where they occur, and the demographic groups most frequently targeted through its public Hate Crime Dashboard. For Portage Park residents, the Stathoulopoulos case now stands as a resolved file in that broader citywide count — one where the attack itself drew hate-crime charges, but the final sentence left the defendant free on probation rather than behind bars.
