CHICAGO (WGN) — A Chicago man is accused of kidnapping a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus driver at knifepoint early Wednesday morning, before the city worker later escaped through a window.
Lanell Fields, 51, of Chicago faces the following charges:
- One felony count of aggravated armed kidnapping
- One felony count of aggravated unlawful restraint
- One felony count of aggravated assault of a state II employee with a weapon
Charges stem from a May 13 incident in the 2400 block of N. Pulaski. Just after 2:35 a.m. in the 2400 block of North Pulaski, police allege that Fields was traveling on a CTA bus when he approached the driver, a 57-year-old woman, and demanded that the bus not stop.
The CTA driver drove all the way to the 900 block of North Clark Street on the Near North Side, then escaped through a window…