Alphanso Talley Returned to Custody in 2025 Carjacking Case After Officer's Killing
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 2
Alphanso Talley Returned to Custody in 2025 Carjacking Case After Officer's Killing
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 2
Cook County Judge John Lyke Jr. on Tuesday revoked 27-year-old Alphanso Talley’s pretrial release in a 2025 armed robbery and carjacking case, sending him back to custody over an alleged release violation.
The ruling follows intense scrutiny of Lyke’s earlier decision to free Talley on electronic monitoring before prosecutors say he fatally shot Officer John Bartholomew, 28, and wounded another officer at a Chicago hospital on April 25.
Court transcripts show Lyke cited Illinois’ 2021 SAFE-T Act, which ended cash bail, when he previously released Talley despite seven prior convictions; he said Talley once might have faced $1 million bail.
Prosecutors say Talley staged a hospital trip after a Family Dollar armed robbery by claiming he swallowed narcotics, then grabbed a gun from under a blanket, shot two officers and tried to escape.
Talley is already being held without release in the murder case, returns to court Wednesday on the shooting charges, and faces a July 15 date in the carjacking case amid renewed debate over Illinois bail policy.