Pair Arrested After Blue Line Stickup

Two Chicago men who robbed a CTA Blue Line commuter of a pair of cell phones were charged with armed robbery after a foiled escape attempt, police said.

The incident took place July 16 around 2:10 a.m. on a westbound CTA Blue Line, where authorities said Otire Woods and Terrell Jones approached the 23-year-old victim. Woods displayed a handgun — later determined to be a pellet gun — while Jones swiped a cell phone from the man's hand then reached his pocket and stole a second cell phone.

Jones and Wood exited the train at Oak Park Avenue; the victim stayed on until Harlem Avenue then called police from a pay phone.

Officers found the pair at the Oak Park Avenue Blue Line platform, where Woods dropped the cell phones and weapon.

Both men, police said, jumped on the Blue Line train tracks, hopped a fence and ran across the westbound lanes of the Eisenhower Expressway and were caught a short time later in the 500 block of Harrison Street.

Jones, 20, of the 5300 block of West Crystal Street, and Woods, 22, of the 3300 block of West Monroe Street, were charged with armed robbery, authorities said.