27-Feb-18 – Three of the four men suspected of robbing commuters at gunpoint in CTA pedestrian tunnels in the Loop have been caught.

20-year-old Delonte Sawyer (far left), 18-year-old Dernandiez Lindsey (near left), and an unidentified 17-year-old were charged with felony robbery.

Chicago police say Sawyer, arrested last week, was recognized by someone who saw a CPD community alert.

The three are accused of robbing a 17-year-old boy on February 13 at about 7:00 a.m. in a tunnel beneath the area of State & Adams. They took his debit card, $7 in cash, and a Gucci belt, then battered him. The boy was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

On February 2, eleven days before he allegedly beat and robbed the victim in the Loop, Sawyer avoided jail time and was given 24 months of probation for beating and robbing a 22-year-old man in the Boystown neighborhood last April. This time, however, he was ordered held without bail.

Sawyer lives south of the Loop in the Grand Crossing neighborhood. Lindsey lives near Rogers Park.

There have been two other recent robberies in the CTA tunnels, one on January 30 at about 9:15 a.m. and the other on February 14 at 7:00 p.m.