A man is jailed awaiting trial after Chicago police allegedly saw him violently mug a female DePaul University student in the Loop.
The victim, a 19-year-old woman, had just finished class at the school’s downtown campus and was walking south on State Street when Romeo Luna, 24, began following her around 1:45 p.m. on January 13, prosecutors said.
At the corner of Ida B Wells Drive and South State Street, the woman was holding her iPhone with both hands, using Google Maps and talking on the device, when Luna approached and pulled at the phone, according to prosecutors.
Luna allegedly continued pulling on the phone and dragged the woman to the ground while trying to take it away. He then kicked her in the stomach, which forced her to let go of the phone, prosecutors said in a detention petition…