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Article: Clerk stumbles across suspect day after armed robbery at dry cleaners.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- November 16, 2002
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Byline: Justin Kmitch Daily Herald Staff Writer
A teen accused of trying to rob a dry cleaners at gunpoint not only failed in his mission, but was caught the next day when his victim recognized him on the street.
Police said 18-year-old Tyler Roberts, of 212 S. York Road in Bensenville, entered J&J One Hour Dry Cleaners on Wednesday afternoon, threatened the clerk with a revolver and demanded all the money from the safe.
"I was scared when I couldn't get the safe open because he had (a) gun," said the clerk. "He got tired of waiting, I guess, and ran out without getting anything."
The clerk promptly called police, but the suspect fled ...