Robber Gives Victims His Phone Number
CHICAGO (CBS) ― It's not often that a robber tells his would-be victim "call me!" But it happened, on Chicago's West Side.
CBS 2's Joanie Lum reports Jose Velasquez's Mufflers 4 Less shop got more excitement than they bargained for Monday -- the first customer of the day was a masked man with a gun.
"He had his gun out, walking in the office," said mechanic Antonio Diaz.
The three mechanics on duty told him they didn't have any money and the owner would have to come in to open the safe. The man gave them his cell phone number.
"He just told us he would give us the number, and we would have to call when the owner was here and the money was going to get here," Diaz said.
Manager Jose Sida said when he left the robber said "'you better call me. If you don't, when I come back, I shoot you guys.'"
"We didn't call the owner, we called police" Diaz said.
Police told them to be calm and call the suspect. Jose Sida was stunned to be making an appointment to be robbed.
But plainclothes tactical officers posed as mechanics and waited for the man to return.
The real employees scrambled to the back room and heard gunfire. When it was over, the suspect was under arrest, with a gunshot wound to the leg.
The 18-year-old suspect was treated for non-life threatening and questioned at Illinois Masonic Hospital.
A source close to the investigation says the suspect lived close to the shop, was under house arrest and was wearing a home monitoring device on his ankle at the time of the robbery.
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