When Oscar Solorzano stabbed another passenger aboard the Charlotte Area Transit System’s LYNX Blue Line train in December, he wasn’t supposed to be on the train at all. He’d been banned from using CATS transportation a few months earlier.
But violent riders flouting bans is a common occurrence on CATS, according to the transit system’s own records from the last two years.
More than a dozen banned riders in 2025 were banned again for another offense during periods when they were prohibited from using the system, records obtained by The Charlotte Observer show…