A Chicago woman whose broad grin in CTA surveillance footage helped put her behind bars is looking considerably less cheerful now that she’s been charged in a violent Red Line robbery.
Lemia Black, 25, faces charges of robbery and aggravated battery of a transit passenger following the January 5 attack aboard a Red Line train near Grand, according to court records. Black and accomplices approached a 23-year-old woman on the train around 10:10 p.m., beat her and stole her phone, prosecutors said.
CPD released surveillance images of the suspect in mid-January, including one showing her smiling broadly as she strolled down a subway platform, and asked the public to help identify her…