Months after strolling out of court docket with a probation sentence for a downtown theft case, 28-year-old William McGee is again behind bars—this time for one more Crimson Line theft that he allegedly dedicated a month earlier than the case that earned him leniency.
Based on prosecutors, McGee and a gaggle of accomplices attacked a 30-year-old man on a Crimson Line prepare close to 79th Road on Might 10, 2024. The group allegedly beat the person and stole his belongings earlier than fleeing. Per week later, Chicago police launched surveillance images of a number of suspects, however these efforts didn’t drum up any good info, and the case went chilly.
However that modified final week when the sufferer picked McGee out of a photograph lineup, figuring out him as the person who punched him within the face and took his telephone in the course of the assault, in response to a detention submitting. Choose Deidre Dyer ordered McGee detained on prices of theft and aggravated battery of a transit passenger.
Simply 4 weeks after the 79th Road theft, McGee was arrested for one more comparable crime. On June 6, 2024, a 35-year-old man was driving a Crimson Line prepare within the Loop when a number of folks attacked him, punching him and stealing his backpack. Surveillance footage confirmed McGee attempting to tear the bag off the sufferer whereas two others beat him, in response to a Chicago police report.
McGee was charged in that case and, in April, pleaded responsible to illegal restraint. In alternate, prosecutors dropped theft and aggravated battery counts, and McGee acquired a one-year probation sentence.
Now, simply months after that plea, McGee is experiencing a little bit of déjà vu—sitting in jail, awaiting trial for allegedly attacking and robbing somebody on the Crimson Line.
