'L' Train Passengers Help Catch iPhone Robber
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Another passenger was robbed of an iPhone on the 'L' Wednesday, but this time, passengers stepped in and caught the suspect.
As WBBM Newsradio's Regine Schlesinger reports, around 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, a woman getting off a train at the Sedgwick stop on the CTA Brown Line was accosted by a teenage boy who grabbed her iPhone 4, the Chicago Tribune reported. The woman was not seriously hurt.
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As the thief ran off and tried to run down the stairs to ground level, the Tribune reports several other passengers grabbed him and held him until police arrived.
The 16-year-old boy now faces a charge of strongarm robbery, the Tribune reported.
Earlier this year, a similar robbery on a Chicago Transit Authority train turned deadly.
Prince Watson, 17, is accused of robbing a woman of her iPhone on March 29, then barreling down the stairs at the Fullerton Red-Brown-Purple Line 'L' stop and knocking down Sally Katona-King, 68, in the process. Katona-King was pronounced dead soon afterward.
