A person who spent a lot of his grownup life in jail for homicide and arson is again in custody after prosecutors stated he set one other fireplace—this time whereas smoking crack cocaine on a CTA bus in Humboldt Park.
Earl D. Ellington, 55, is charged with aggravated arson and felony injury to authorities property after he allegedly lit a fireplace on a #82 Kimball-Homan bus close to North Avenue and Homan Avenue final month. 9 passengers have been on board, however nobody was injured, authorities stated.
In a detention petition, prosecutors stated Ellington was smoking crack within the rear of the bus when he began a fireplace and ran away.
Responding officers discovered him close by, matching the suspect’s description and bearing a contemporary burn mark on the again of his shirt, in keeping with a Chicago police report. Officers additionally recovered a small quantity of suspected crack cocaine and a glass pipe with white residue, the report stated.
CTA cameras recorded the incident, and a bus worker later recognized Ellington as the one who began the fireplace and ran away.
Ellington was convicted of homicide and arson in a single case filed in 1993. Greater than six years later, in November 1999, he obtained a 24-year sentence for homicide and 15 years for aggravated arson, in keeping with court docket information.
Cook dinner County Decide Deidre Dyer granted prosecutors’ request to detain him pending trial.
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