A 15-year-old boy has been slapped with serious charges including robbery and burglary in Chicago, police say. The juvenile, whose identity is shielded due to his age, is accused of forcibly snatching belongings from a 56-year-old woman on a CTA platform and burglarizing a property minutes earlier, according to a Chicago Police Department release.
The alleged robbery took place on May 24 around 4:45 p.m. when the 15-year-old targeted the middle-aged woman in broad daylight in the 300 block of S. Plymouth Ct., an act that left the community rattled, fearing for safety and questioning the presence of law on the busy transit ways where such an audacious crime could unfold, only twenty minutes after a burglary was reported at 2100 block of N. Seminary Ave., he's believed to be connected to the burglary too. The CPD Mass Transit Team apprehended the youngster on May 31 on the 1400 block of W. 61st St., acting on identification processes that pinned him at the scene of both crimes.
On facing the Chicago justice system, the suspect has been charged with one count of felony robbery and one additional felony count of burglary. These charges put the minor in a position of facing a future entangled with the criminal justice system at an age where society, in a perfect world, would hope to provide more constructive paths for its youth.
The Chicago Police Department, while making the arrest, has not divulged further details surrounding the incidents or the subsequent investigation.
