CHICAGO — An anonymous tipster who saw a Chicago police bulletin about a recent robbery at the Addison Red Line station helped cops identify the assailant, officials say.
Around 9 p.m. on October 22, a 21-year-old woman was riding a northbound train when a masked man grabbed her wrist and pulled her onto the platform at Addison, 940 West Addison, according to a police report. The man took the woman’s phone and ran from the station.
Detectives decided to release a surveillance image of the robber on November 2, hoping the public would identify him. The move paid off.
An anonymous caller identified the robber as Dashion Jones, 37, prosecutors said. Cops went looking for Jones and recently found him in the 200 block of South Sacramento.
According to his arrest report, Jones was carrying the same backpack as the robber, and the bag contained the same Los Angeles Dodgers jersey the robber wore.
Judge Ankur Srivastava detained Jones, saying he was convicted of robbery last year and was on pretrial release for a battery case at the time of the Wrigleyville mugging.
