Two males who who teamed as much as mug a passenger aboard a Purple Line prepare had been each sporting ankle displays for pending circumstances, officers say, and certainly one of them efficiently beat a theft cost simply hours earlier than the assault.
Prosecutors stated Shannon Stephens, 23, and Jamari Grey, 21, confronted a 41-year-old man whereas using a southbound Purple Line prepare close to forty seventh Road early on September 12. In the course of the holdup, Stephens allegedly reduce the sufferer’s left wrist and palm whereas Grey struck him within the face. The boys allegedly pulled out a bit of the sufferer’s beard and bought away along with his bookbag.
Stephens and Grey ran off after the assault, however police detained Stephens close by and arrested Grey when he returned to the prepare platform carrying the sufferer’s bookbag — and sporting an ankle monitor, a CPD report stated.
Choose James Murphy III ordered each males detained on costs of theft and aggravated battery, citing their ankle displays as some extent of concern.
Stephens’ arrest got here barely 12 hours after prosecutors dropped a separate theft cost filed in opposition to him earlier that month.
On September 4, police stated he fought with a loss prevention officer on the Jewel-Osco at 1224 South Wabash Avenue after making an attempt to depart the shop with a bottle of Tito’s vodka. Surveillance cameras recorded the confrontation, and he resisted arrest when cops detained him close by, based on the allegations. Prosecutors charged him with theft, resisting, and reckless conduct, however the theft depend was dismissed on September 11, based on court docket data. At 2:15 a.m. the following day, he was arrested for the CTA theft, nonetheless sporting his digital monitoring bracelet, based on CPD.
Grey, in the meantime, was additionally alleged to be on digital monitoring in an unrelated weapons case. In February, he was charged with two counts of aggravated illegal use of a weapon after police allegedly discovered him carrying a loaded gun in his jacket pocket at a South Facet bus cease. Whereas a decide initially detained him on the fees, Choose Carol Howard launched him on monitoring with a nighttime curfew on April 4.
He didn’t present up for his subsequent court docket date on Might 6, however a court docket officer knowledgeable Howard that he apparently violated his curfew seven occasions in lower than two weeks and was not at his house after they went to verify on him just a few days earlier, based on court docket data. Howard put out a warrant for his arrest.
When he was introduced earlier than Howard once more on Might 27, she launched him as soon as once more on digital monitoring, data present.
He as soon as once more failed to point out up for his subsequent court docket date, and the court docket officer advised Howard that after he was launched from jail, he did not report back to the residence the place he was to reside. His monitoring system was in “sleep mode” and “he isn’t being tracked electronically,” the officer wrote in a report. “His present location is unknown.”
A warrant had been out for his arrest since June 10 when he was arrested within the theft case.
