Few men with fake bill linger on Red Line platform, Chicago IL


A small group of 4 to 5 men in their twenties or thirties are on the Red Line train platform near 69th Street in Chicago. One man dropped a counterfeit bill and appeared to ignore it, possibly waiting for someone to pick it up. They stayed on the platform even after the trains left. Surveillance showed only a few men spaced apart, not a large crowd.
Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 06
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Transcript:
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And we're getting the disturbance at the red lines, 69th, 15 West 69. There's about 4 to 5 men, 20 or 30 of age, on the platform, seeing they're looking for trouble, one dropped the counterfeit bill,
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they act like they don't see it, possibly waiting for someone to come pick it up.
00:18
They're still on the platform after the trains have left, after the first.
00:23
Okay.
00:29
Venus and 8 Burglar Alarm at Aswellah School 4707 with Marquette General Alarm.
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832.
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832. 832.
00:48
831, can you check out that Bergo Alarm as well as school.
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7.7.7.
01:01
You have that call on the platform on 69th, correct? That they're saying that there's a bunch of people on the platform?
01:08
They say there's 4 to 5 men, age 20 to 30, on the platform.
01:14
Okay, on the pod camera, there's nobody on the platform.
01:19
In that amount of numbers.
01:24
How many do you see?
01:28
I mean,
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five, six people.
01:32
They're all spread out. And look for inside of the bus of you there.
01:42
So they're not together, those five people, five men? They don't look like they're together?
01:51
No, they're both spread out.
01:55
I just don't want anybody to get rid over there. There's not 45 people on the platform, that's all.
02:00
No, it's four, the ticket says 4 to 5, not 45.
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CTA Red Line, Chicago, IL
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