Chicago cops have arrested one of four men responsible for mugging passengers on the Red Line in December, according to a CPD media statement. Records show the man was convicted in 2023 of committing another robbery at the Roosevelt CTA station downtown.
Jemaal Muhammad, 20, of DeKalb, is charged with three counts of robbery after police arrested him in the first block of South State Street on Tuesday. His arrest came on the same day that mass transit detectives released surveillance images of the robbers and asked for help identifying them.
CPD said Muhammad was one of the men who mugged a 15-year-old boy on a train near 95th Street around 10:52 p.m. on December 29. “Several” other victims were also targeted during that incident, according to his arrest report. Less than ten minutes later, he and two accomplices robbed a 44-year-old man on a train near 79th Street, police said.
Court records show Muhammad is also being charged with robbing a man at the Clark-Division station on December 21.
The community alert issued on Tuesday also linked the group to a third robbery near the Cermak Red Line station late on December 20. Muhammad is not charged with that case, according to CPD’s media statement.
Judge Susana Ortiz detained him on the new charges.
In June 2022, Muhammad was charged with committing an aggravated robbery at the Roosevelt CTA station in the Loop, according to CPD and court records. He received a three-year sentence in March 2023, but did not spend any time in prison after receiving credit for time spent in the county jail and the state’s standard 50% credit for good behavior.
Court records show he has a pending misdemeanor case in which he is accused of carrying a knife in the 7900 block of South Lafayette on December 11.
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