July 24--A judge denied bail Thursday afternoon for a 24-year-old parolee accused of robbing two people and knocking one of them unconscious earlier this week near the CTA's Red Line in the Loop.
"You are a dangerous individual,'' said Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. before denying bail to Demon D. Robinson, of the 2700 block of West Harrison Street.
Robinson grinned as he was led back to a holding cell by sheriff's deputies after a Thursday hearing at the Leighton Criminal Court Building.
Robinson was charged with robbery, two counts of aggravated battery and one count of attempted robbery, according to court documents. He was also wanted on a parole violation warrant.
He is suspected of robbing and punching a 20-year-old Gold Coast man Sunday and robbing and punching a 28-year-old Edgewater woman Monday, according to prosecutors.
Robinson was arrested early Tuesday in the 300 block of South State Street. Officers saw him loitering in Pritzker Park after hours and found he matched the description of a suspect wanted for multiple robberies on the Red Line, according to a police report.
He is suspected of punching the woman five times in the face, causing a laceration and fracture to her nose, while grabbing her purse in the Red Line subway in the 200 block of South State Street early Monday, according to court documents. The woman, who needed stitches, was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
"If he had hit me a little bit harder, I would have been dead," said the 28-year-old woman, who did not want her name used.
It was about 6 a.m., and she was on her way to orientation for the first day at a new job when a man asked what time it was.
After telling him, she walked away, but he then "attacked me from behind," the woman said. "It's horrifying that it could happen in a public place," she said.
Sunday's incident happened in the 300 block of South State Street as Robinson punched the man in the face, hitting his jaw and knocking him unconscious as Robinson took the victim's wallet, according to court documents.
He removed $50 from the wallet and threw the wallet to the ground. The man was taken to Mercy Hospital Medical Center with severe facial injuries, including a broken right jaw, according to court documents.
Robinson was paroled in June for a robbery conviction, according to the Illinois Department of Corrections.
