CHICAGO — A 16-year-old boy is charged with committing 4 robberies on CTA trains and platforms earlier this 12 months, police say. Chicago police arrested the boy yesterday within the 1100 block of South Hamilton, which is the place the county’s juvenile justice middle is positioned, suggesting he could produce other issues pending.
CPD mentioned the boy first robbed a 24-year-old man on the Cermak-Chinatown cease shortly earlier than 5 a.m. on July 31.
Then, late September 17 and early September 18, the boy was a part of a bunch that dedicated a string of robberies from the North Facet to downtown, in response to CPD. A 14-year-old boy was charged in reference to the spree inside per week.
Police mentioned the group mugged their first sufferer close to Bryn Mawr round 10:50 p.m. on September 17 and compelled him off a prepare at a station north of Uptown. The 30-year-old informed police that 5 or 6 males carrying hoodies punched him repeatedly within the face and took his cellphone, glasses, and AirPod case. Prosecutors charged a 26-year-old man final month with collaborating within the theft, too.
Shortly after that, a 34-year-old man reported being mugged by 5 to seven folks someplace between Wilson and Sheridan. The group punched him, took his cellphone, opened his backpack, and stole his financial institution playing cards. He declined medical consideration.
He’s charged with three counts of theft, three counts of aggravated battery of a transit passenger, and one rely of armed theft with a firearm. No different data is out there in regards to the boy as a result of he’s underneath 18.
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