RANCH TRIANGLE — Chicago Police sought information Tuesday on a woman suspected of an attempted violent cellphone theft that occurred midday on a CTA Red Line train near the North and Clybourn avenues stop.
The attempted strong-arm robbery took place Oct. 26, but police issued a security-camera shot of the suspected woman Tuesday.
According to a community alert issued Tuesday by the Bureau of Detectives, at about noon on Oct. 26 the suspect attempted to take a cellphone from a woman by force on a moving train.
"When this female offender was unsuccessful in taking the victim's cellphone, she then pulled the victim by the hair causing the victim to fall from her seat in an attempt to drag the victim from the train" at the North and Clybourn station, the alert stated.
Unsuccessful in pulling the victim from the train, "the offender then fled at the Clybourn stop with two other female blacks and one female white."
Anyone with additional information is asked to call the Bureau of Detectives at 312-747-8382 in reference to case HZ498147.
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