A recently announced surge of Chicago police patrols on Chicago Transit Authority train lines is already paying dividends, with cops taking two men into custody within days for allegedly carrying loaded firearms on CTA Red Line platforms in the Loop, according to CPD and court records.
At around 4:40 p.m. on December 28, officers patrolling the Roosevelt CTA station noticed 24-year-old Adrian Morris riding an electric bicycle on the Red Line platform, a violation of CTA rules, prosecutors said. When police asked Morris to get off the bike, he refused.
During the encounter, officers allegedly saw a knife on Morris, prompting them to begin detaining him for the weapon. At that point, Morris told officers that he was also carrying a firearm, according to a Chicago police report…