A 13-time convicted felon allegedly burglarized an off-duty Chicago police officer’s gym locker, used the cop’s stolen credit card to buy a $1,403 phone and then claimed to be the cop when officers stopped him nearby — all while wearing an ankle monitor.
Lamont Cathey, whose repeated ingestion of metal and other objects inside correctional facilities has reportedly cost taxpayers at least $2 million in medical care, is now back in a very familiar place: the Cook County Jail. He faces charges in the South Loop burglary and a separate case involving a Range Rover stolen from a fitness center parking lot.
In the South Loop, prosecutors said Cathey left his home while on electronic monitoring and entered a yoga studio in the 500 block of West Roosevelt Road, where a 30-year-old off-duty Chicago police officer was attending a fitness class. A gym employee told the officer that someone had pried open his locker and fled with his belongings, including a wallet containing his police identification, according to a CPD report…