A man accused of punching a Red Line passenger who asked him to stop smoking marijuana on a train allegedly attacked and tried to rob a CTA customer service agent at the Clinton Green Line station weeks later, punching the worker in the face while trying to take his backpack, prosecutors said.
Joseph Haynes, 37, was recently arrested in Naperville in connection with a separate domestic matter and turned over to Chicago police, according to a detention filing.
The first attack occurred around 1:14 p.m. on April 2 aboard an inbound Red Line train at the North-Clybourn station, prosecutors said. Haynes was riding with the 29-year-old victim and two witnesses when he began smoking marijuana, prosecutors said. The victim confronted him about smoking on the train, and the two exchanged words before the victim returned to his seat…