According to this UPI account, late Sunday night, Mario Garcia, 39, and Domingo Garcia-Hernandez, 28, went to a West Rogers Park restaurant, the Clifton Grill, brandishing a squirt gun, intent on robbing the place. (The Huffington Post account suggests that they merely demanded food on this first visit.)
Whatever they were after, they weren't willing to pay for it. Garcia and Garcia-Hernandez allegedly threatened the owner with grievous bodily harm if he did not accede to their demands.
The owner was nonplussed. He was just too busy to be robbed just now, he told them. Come back in an hour, he suggested, intimating that he'd be more amenable to a robbery then.
They left.
But an hour later, just as the owner recommended, the would-be robbers returned. The Huffington Post account says that, this time, Garcia and Garcia-Hernandez allegedly demanded $100 in addition to their takeout order.
The owner said, sure, but he needed to get his wife's checkbook. (Apparently the crooks didn't take MasterCard or Visa.) He excused himself, but he didn't look for a checkbook. He called the police instead.
The police came and collected Messrs. Garcia and Garcia-Hernandez, charging them with attempted aggravated robbery. Garcia-Hernandez was additionally charged with possession of a replica firearm; apparently he had the squirtgun.
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