A 22-year-old Lansing man, arrested five times since December 30, is accused of attacking and robbing a high school student on a downtown train platform while on pretrial release in three separate cases and wearing an electronic monitoring device. When officers arrested him hours after the mugging, they allegedly found not only the teen’s stolen phone but six additional cell phones that police believe belong to other victims.
Devion Goodman is now detained on charges of robbery and aggravated battery of a transit passenger by order of Judge John Hock.
Prosecutors said the attack unfolded around 2:45 p.m. on February 13 on the Roosevelt Green Line platform. The 17-year-old Jones College Prep student was on the platform when Goodman allegedly grabbed his cell phone, according to a Chicago police report. When the boy tried to retrieve it, Goodman punched him in the face, knocked him to the ground, and took his wallet before fleeing the station, the report said…