No one knows a children better than their own mother \u2014 and no kid can keep anything truly hidden from their mom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This rings true for a Chicago mother who happened to see her own child on the news in a report about an armed robbery of a train conductor in Chicago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Metra Police Department released images of the suspect after he was caught on camera following the theft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After recognizing her son, the mother turned Zion Brown in for the Chicago train robbery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The robbery occurred on Tuesday, February 15 and by that night Brown\u2019s mom had turned her son in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown, an economics major at Loyola University, was reportedly taking the train to class when he realized that he was a little peckish and wanted a small snack before class started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At 2:07 p.m. last Tuesday, as the train pulled into the Van Buren Street Station in downtown Chicago, Brown spotted the conductor handling a stack of money and decided to take action against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brown allegedly held the train conductor at gunpoint with a black, semi-automatic handgun and announced that he was performing a robbery aboard the Metra Electric Line train, stealing $110<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At a court hearing, it was claimed that this was a crime of opportunity and that when Brown noticed the conductor handling the money, he got pangs of hunger and decided to take the $110 \u2014 making off with the money but throwing the weapon away in a nearby trash can<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During a court hearing to decide Brown\u2019s bond and whether or not he would get one, his defense attorney told Judge Maryam Ahmad that the teen committed the crime because he was hungry and needed to eat before class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, this excuse didn\u2019t work on the judge, who jokes that she was once a hungry student but had never resorted to violence in order to finance a snack, CWB Chicago reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As such, Brown\u2019s request for bail was denied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
he was an undergraduate student at Loyola University and would be studying economics \u2014 set to graduate in 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, it\u2019s unclear whether he\u2019ll remain in good standing with the school after a situation like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
During an interview with the police, Brown revealed that the gun that he had used to perform the robbery had actually been a BB gun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The train conductor was unharmed in the robbery, and Brown has no prior criminal record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
No one knows a children better than their own mother \u2014 and no kid can keep anything truly hidden from their mom.<\/p>\n
This rings true for a Chicago mother who happened to see her own child on the news in a report about an armed robbery of a train conductor in Chicago.<\/p>\n
The Metra Police Department released images of the suspect after he was caught on camera following the theft.<\/p>\n
After recognizing her son, the mother turned Zion Brown in for the Chicago train robbery.<\/p>\n
The robbery occurred on Tuesday, February 15 and by that night Brown\u2019s mom had turned her son in.<\/p>\n
Brown, an economics major at Loyola University, was reportedly taking the train to class when he realized that he was a little peckish and wanted a small snack before class started.<\/p>\n
At 2:07 p.m. last Tuesday, as the train pulled into the Van Buren Street Station in downtown Chicago, Brown spotted the conductor handling a stack of money and decided to take action against him.<\/p>\n
Brown allegedly held the train conductor at gunpoint with a black, semi-automatic handgun and announced that he was performing a robbery aboard the Metra Electric Line train, stealing $110<\/p>\n
At a court hearing, it was claimed that this was a crime of opportunity and that when Brown noticed the conductor handling the money, he got pangs of hunger and decided to take the $110 \u2014 making off with the money but throwing the weapon away in a nearby trash can<\/p>\n
During a court hearing to decide Brown\u2019s bond and whether or not he would get one, his defense attorney told Judge Maryam Ahmad that the teen committed the crime because he was hungry and needed to eat before class.<\/p>\n
However, this excuse didn\u2019t work on the judge, who jokes that she was once a hungry student but had never resorted to violence in order to finance a snack, CWB Chicago reported.<\/p>\n
As such, Brown\u2019s request for bail was denied.<\/p>\n
he was an undergraduate student at Loyola University and would be studying economics \u2014 set to graduate in 2025.<\/p>\n
However, it\u2019s unclear whether he\u2019ll remain in good standing with the school after a situation like this.<\/p>\n
During an interview with the police, Brown revealed that the gun that he had used to perform the robbery had actually been a BB gun.<\/p>\n
The train conductor was unharmed in the robbery, and Brown has no prior criminal record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign","category-lifestyle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}