7-Nov-17 – Chicago police have arrested one of three men who robbed three riders at the Red Line station at Grand & State last month.

18-year-old Alphanso Talley is charged with multiple armed robberies.

Three men, all in the their 20s, were standing on the subway platform at 12:25 p.m. on October 21 when they were approached by three other men, one of whom displayed a handgun. They were robbed of a wallet, backpack, and three mobile phones but no one was injured.

Police say Talley (left) was one of the robbers. He was arrested without incident on Sunday at about 1 a.m. on State Street one block south of the CTA station. He was charged with three felony counts of armed robbery and two felony counts of aggravated robbery and was in bond court on Monday.

Talley lives in the 4800 block of North Francisco Avenue, north of Lawrence Avenue near the north branch of the Chicago River and about nine miles northwest of the Loop.

He is also charged with an aggravated robbery on October 14 of two men in an alley near North Clark Street and West Belmont Avenue. Police say he assaulted the men after robbing them.

Robbery victims pushed, punched near Washington Square Park

Police issued a community alert on Monday about three robberies in the Gold Coast neighborhood during which victims were pushed and punched by three or four men.

Two robberies happened on November 4, at 1:57 a.m. and 3:10 a.m., within two blocks of Washington Square Park. A third robbery was on November 5 at 1:14 a.m. on West Huron Street between Wells and Franklin.

The men are described as black, 20 to 25 years old, five-feet-seven-inches to six-feet-two-inches tall, and weighing 175 to 180 pounds.