A man was arrested after he tied up a clerk at a games store in Oak Lawn but was scared off by an exterminator before he could rob the place.
Ulis M. Booker, 39, entered the Game Stop store in the 8700 block of Ridgeland Avenue in the south suburb shortly before 11 a.m. on Monday and pointed a gun at the 22-year-old clerk.
Booker took the clerk to a back room and was tying him up when an employee of a pest control company entered the store, Kaufmann said. Booker then walked to the front, pasy the exterminator and then left the store.
In the meantime, the clerk was able to free his hands and then ran into a closet, from where he called 911.
A video camera caught Booker discarding some of his clothes into a trash bin at the back of the store. He was only a few blocks from the store when police spotted him walking down the street and arrested him.
A .25-caliber gun was found next to a bush in the 8700 block of Mobile Avenue, a block from where Booker was arrested.
Booker was charged with aggravated unlawful restraint and attempted armed robbery and was ordered held on $150,000 bail.
Booker, who lives in the 5100 block of West Augusta Boulevard in Chicago, has a 2007 conviction for resisting a peace officer.
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