Two males, together with one who was paroled final month, are going through felony theft fees after prosecutors stated they joined a gaggle that viciously beat and robbed a 42-year-old man on a Pink Line prepare within the Loop this week.
In response to a detention petition, the sufferer, who lives in Rogers Park, had simply boarded the prepare round 7 a.m. Wednesday, when 4 or 5 males and a girl surrounded him, demanding he quit his seat. Prosecutors stated the group shouted at him, poked him, and ordered him to face because the prepare approached the State-Lake station.
When the person complied, video footage confirmed, the group started beating and kicking him, in line with the petition. Through the assault, 27-year-old Demetri Saunders, of Dolton, allegedly took the sufferer’s telephone from his hand and his pockets from his pocket. One other member of the group made off with the sufferer’s backpack.
Prosecutors stated 24-year-old Jacobi Dickerson, of Harvard, was captured on digital camera repeatedly punching the sufferer within the face and physique earlier than stomping on him.
Because the attackers exited at Lake Avenue, the sufferer pleaded for his belongings, and the one who had taken his backpack threw it again into the railcar, prosecutors stated. The sufferer recovered it, however his pockets containing about $500 was by no means discovered.
Police surveillance officers tracked the group’s actions on metropolis cameras as they fled to avenue stage and boarded a CTA bus. Police stopped the bus close to Roosevelt Highway and detained Saunders and Dickerson. They allegedly discovered the sufferer’s telephone in Saunders’ pocket.
Each males at the moment are charged with theft.
Courtroom data present Saunders isn’t any stranger to the felony justice system. He was launched from jail on July 15 after serving about half of a five-year sentence he acquired for being a felon in possession of a firearm. IDOC data present he has two prior theft convictions, one in 2018 and the opposite in 2019.
Chicago police additionally arrested Saunders on August 9, simply 4 days earlier than the prepare assault, on felony hashish supply fees. He was on pretrial launch for that case on the time of the theft.
Choose Maryam Ahmad ordered Dickerson detained. Saunders was hospitalized throughout the court docket listening to, so his detention petition will probably be thought of on Monday.
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