A person is jailed awaiting trial after Chicago police allegedly noticed him violently mug a feminine DePaul College scholar within the Loop.
The sufferer, a 19-year-old lady, had simply completed class on the college’s downtown campus and was strolling south on State Road when Romeo Luna, 24, started following her round 1:45 p.m. on January 13, prosecutors mentioned.
On the nook of Ida B Wells Drive and South State Road, the girl was holding her iPhone with each palms, utilizing Google Maps and speaking on the gadget, when Luna approached and pulled on the cellphone, based on prosecutors.
Luna allegedly continued pulling on the cellphone and dragged the girl to the bottom whereas making an attempt to take it away. He then kicked her within the abdomen, which pressured her to let go of the cellphone, prosecutors mentioned in a detention petition.
After gaining management of the cellphone, Luna ran to a close-by 2014 gold Chevrolet Malibu and acquired into the passenger seat, based on the petition.
However a few Chicago cops occurred to be sitting in visitors close by and so they witnessed the complete assault, prosecutors mentioned. The officers activated their squad automotive lights and lower off the Malibu on the intersection. Prosecutors mentioned the cops ordered Luna out of the automotive and detained him, recovering the girl’s cellphone from subsequent to the Malibu.
Luna is charged with theft and three counts of possessing a managed substance — suspected amphetamine, alprazolam, and oxycodone. Choose John Hock granted the detention petition.
