Crime & Safety

Woman Charged for Spraying Metra Conductor With Mace

West Chicago Woman charged with battery after spraying Metra conductor with mace.

A woman was arrested Monday after she sprayed a Metra conductor in the face with mace at the College Avenue train depot around 8:40 a.m.

The woman refused to show a conductor her ticket after she stepped off the eastbound Metra commuter train at College Avenue. When a second conductor requested to see the ticket, she pulled the can of mace out of her purse and sprayed him in the face, according to a press release from the Wheaton Police Department.

Latoya Moore, 27, of West Chicago, was arrested and charged with one felony count of aggravated battery to a protected class and one count of misdemeanor theft of services, police said.

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The conductor rinsed his face and eyes with water in the train station. No one else was injured. The train was delayed approximately 25 minutes.

Moore was booked at the Wheaton Police Department and taken to DuPage County Jail.

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