Two men were charged Sunday in separate attacks on three Chicago police officers, including one whose arm was broken by a man who beat her after the officer caught him fare-jumping at an elevated train stop, prosecutors said.
Two other officers suffered minor injuries when a man whom police saw urinating in an alley ordered his pit bull to attack them when they tried to arrest him, prosecutors said.
James Curry, 46, of Chicago was charged with aggravated battery to a police officer and bail was set at $90,000 in the “L” incident.
Assistant Cook County State’s Atty. Iris Ferosie said the attack occurred Friday afternoon when an officer saw Curry, who is not handicapped, go through the handicapped gate without paying at the Chicago Transit Authority’s Red Line stop at Roosevelt Road and State Street.
Curry, who was wearing a hard cast on his right arm, struck the officer with his cast several times, hitting her face and arms, Ferosie said.
One blow fractured the officer’s arm, and another caused a gash on her cheek, Ferosie said. The officer was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Curry suffered a laceration on his forehead and was treated at Cook County Hospital.
The second attack occurred Saturday afternoon, in the 1200 block of West Roosevelt Road after two officers saw Charles Allen, 37, in an alley, Ferosie said.
The officers discovered that Allen, who had his pit bull on a leash, was wanted for a parole violation.
While placing Allen under arrest, he tied his dog to a fence, but then yelled for the dog to attack, Ferosie said.
The dog lunged at the officers, breaking free of its leash and scratched one officer’s forearms while the other suffered a cut finger, Ferosie said.
An officer shot the dog in the ear. The animal was subdued and taken away by the animal control unit.
Allen of the 1300 block of West 15th Street was charged with two counts of aggravated battery to a police officer, public indecency and violating probation.
He was in jail Sunday in lieu of $95,000 bail.
