Search on for man who snatched necklace from woman on CTA Pink Line
The train had just pulled into a station at the time, police said. Police did not specify which station.
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The train had just pulled into a station at the time, police said. Police did not specify which station.
The theft happened at an unspecified stop on the Pink Line.
The CTA employee said he also cannot go to work to do his dream job of fixing buses while he is injured. Sabrina Franza reports.
The attacker struck on a Chicago Transit Authority Pink Line train at the Polk Street stop in the Illinois Medical District.
The victim was on the Pink Line platform when she was approached by the suspect who forcefully took a cell phone from her hand.
The man sat across from the minor when he placed his hand inside his pants and stroked himself while staring at the victim with is cellphone pointed in her direction, police said.
He then looked at several passengers, telling them they had until the Cicero Avenue station to leave or he was going to blow up the train car.
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Police issued a community alert this weekend after a woman had her cellphone stolen by a group of men on the CTA Pink Line in Lawndale and was then sexually assaulted in an alley.
CTA said trains are moving and normal service is being restored.
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The CTA Pink Line was halted near the Cicero stop Thursday evening after a train collided with a vehicle.
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Service on the Green and Pink lines was delayed Thursday afternoon, as officials respond to a medical emergency on the elevated tracks in the Fulton River District neighborhood on the Near West Side.
According to the CTA, Cicero resident Maria Torres attempted to cross the tracks near 22nd and Cicero Ave. when the incident occurred.
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