NBC 5 Investigates has learned that the 50-year-old Chicago man accused of lighting a woman on fire aboard a CTA train was under court-ordered electronic monitoring at the time of the attack Monday.

In newly filed court records, probation officers with Cook County's adult probation department allege that Reed violated the terms of his curfew multiple times in the days leading up to Monday’s attack, including on Nov. 9, 12, 13, 14, 15 and again on Monday, the same day as the incident.

A Cook County judge had placed Reed on 24/7 electronic monitoring back in August after he was accused of assaulting a social worker at MacNeal Hospital where he was receiving inpatient care. He has pleaded not guilty in that case.

It's not clear why the adult probation department waited until Nov. 19 – tw

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