Man with 5 arrests in 11 months held in violent Red Line robbery

An 18-year-old man is the latest person charged in a violent robbery aboard a Red Line train last month, where a woman was beaten, kicked, and robbed by a group of attackers.

Joell Hutson is charged with armed robbery in connection with the June 21 attack and was detained by Judge Rivanda Doss Beal.

Prosecutors said a 28-year-old woman and a friend boarded a southbound Red Line train at Roosevelt around 1:45 a.m. When the train reached the Garfield stop, a group of eight males and females boarded, three of whom the victim recognized from a previous attack…

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