A man who went viral this spring when video circulated of him boarding a Red Line train and threatening to kill people while wielding two hammers is cooling his heels in the Cook County Jail after allegedly threatening to kill a sheriff’s police officer who woke him up and told him he could not sleep on the Red Line — with hammers.
Less than two weeks after Cook County Sheriff’s Police arrested Vincent Jones for allegedly having a gun on the Red Line, his pretrial release went up in smoke Monday when they arrested him again at the same station — this time for allegedly carrying what to a cannabis dispensary in his backpack. And yes, it happened on 4/20.
A man’s decision to smoke while riding the Red Line was all it took for Cook County Sheriff’s Police to strike up a conversation and discover he was carrying a loaded firearm, officials said Monday. He is at least the third person arrested by the agency for possessing a gun on CTA trains since its officers began patrolling Chicago’s rail lines late last month.
A Cook County judge has detained a man after determining that he is “not a good candidate” for electronic monitoring because he “tried to set an entire train car on fire.” Quentin Williams, 38, is accused of setting multiple fires aboard a CTA Blue Line train in the Loop and threatening passengers with a box cutter, according to court records.
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