A suburban man accused of robbing a restaurant owner at gunpoint tried to saw off his ankle monitor by walking into Home Depot and using a pair of — appropriately — bolt cutters from the shelves, prosecutors say, but he walked right into the arms of Cook County Sheriff’s Police in the parking lot, according to prosecutors.
Tyrone Arnold, 28, is charged with escape from electronic monitoring and criminal damage to government property for almost severing the county’s GPS tracker from his ankle. Almost.
Arnold has been on electronic monitoring since being arrested in 2024 for an armed robbery case in which Arnold and another man allegedly targeted a suburban Mexican restaurant owner who had just left a bank near 115th and Halsted with $3,000 to pay a meat vendor…