Man with knife robs passenger on blue line train, Chicago IL
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RobberyA man wearing a black coat and black and white joggers robbed a passenger on a Blue Line train near Western station. The suspect was armed with a knife. Both the suspect and victim remained on the train until officers detained the suspect.
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04:57
Transcript:
00:00
All right, getting a call from CTA for robbery just occurred.
00:03
Robbery just occurred on the blue line at Western.
00:05
Western Blue Line, the one down south by 290.
00:10
It's going to be a male black, black coat, black and white joggers, robbed the person on the train, car number 3334, headed southbound.
00:19
CTA says the offender and victim are still on the train, but they didn't say anything about where they're stopping the train.
00:24
I got another further.
00:30
Committee 39.
00:35
29. 29. All right.
00:38
237.
00:43
37, go ahead.
00:47
37, go ahead.
00:49
All right, Roblox, three over here, going east on the cable locks.
00:53
You're good.
00:57
Can we all get Madison? Madison only squad to open up their closures.
01:05
And TMA is along Madison, Madison only.
01:08
You can open up TMA's along Madison and Madison only.
01:11
You go to be your closure.
01:16
Doggers.
01:21
This might be the transit station, though.
01:24
Nice.
01:37
TMA419, uh,
01:39
J-A-LOT is pretty much clear.
01:42
K-LOT is clear.
01:48
AMA-4 is row 3, so 37.
01:54
7.
01:56
7, go ahead.
02:01
We clear on Damon.
02:05
Oh, you got a little bit of a deal with you thought, y'all.
02:13
7-9-1, David.
02:15
7-0-9-1, David.
02:16
No,
02:17
she's responding to that call on a blue line.
02:19
911, David, 10-4[1].
02:23
3-1, Sam.
02:24
Go ahead.
02:26
That offender might still be on the train.
02:29
May still be on the train, 7-4.
02:38
Stand for, we copy on Danny.
03:06
Is the train at the area?
03:08
Oh, negative.
03:09
The train is at Western.
03:14
Yeah, it's a westbound train.
03:17
It's still at station at near Western.
03:20
Not far, almost several.
03:21
All right.
03:38
David, is there a train stop-in-locking?
03:41
30-0-1, Sam.
03:45
They still stop.
03:46
Yeah, train is still stop.
03:55
CTA was the caller.
03:57
They said they had the victim still on the train with them, though.
04:02
It's trying to stay with the victim in the train car.
04:05
Okay, CTA is with the victim in the train car for 7301 Sam.
04:09
Your offender is going to be a male black, wearing a black coat, black and white joggers.
04:14
He was on car number 3334 and was supposed to be armed with a knife for the call-taker.
04:22
No.
04:24
All right, Timber.
04:30
If anybody else is going to this, just don't get nobody hurt, they got more than enough opposite none seen.
04:35
All right, time four, you can give a slowdown, then slowdown down, Western in the blue line.
04:53
We have one detain.
04:55
We'll entertain 2142 hours.
Police codes explained
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[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).
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Location mentioned:
Western Blue Line Station, Chicago, IL 60647
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