A good Samaritan assisted police in apprehending Tyrone C. Daniel, of 9133 S. Cottage Grove, after he looted a Gold Coast gift shop, on the morning of Nov. 20.

Daniel, 39, allegedly entered a Travel Traders store at 140 E. Walton Street and asked for the manager. The front desk clerk said that the manager was out and Daniel then requested a piece of paper. She gave him a sheet, on which he wrote that he was carrying a loaded gun.

The offender held up his hand inside his coat and said “I have a gun. Before I kill you give me the money.” The cashier stated that she didn’t have a key to the register, at which point Daniel went around the counter and put his left arm around her neck and said “I don’t want to hurt you, just give me the money.”

The employee opened the register and Daniel grabbed all of the money in the drawer. At this point, Daniel pushed the victim into the backroom and forced her to the floor, where he tied her wrists with the straps of her purse and bound her ankles with an electrical cord. Daniel then closed the door and fled the store.

The employee was able to free herself from the ties and pursued Daniel into the hallway of the Drake Hotel. As she gave chase, the victim screamed “He took my money!”

A nearby parking valet heard her and pursued Daniel out of the hotel, where he was able to grab the offender by the coat. Daniel did not struggle with the man, and they went back inside where he was detained by a security guard who contacted police.

Once in custody, Daniel told officers that he had no intention of hurting the cashier, explaining that he had been awake and smoking crack cocaine for three days straight and needed the money. The victim told police that she had seen the man in the store the previous day.

According to the police report, Daniel made the following unsolicited statement to an officer, while being transported to headquarters: “She tricked me. After I tied her up she was crying, saying it hurt. I didn’t want to hurt her, but I guess I didn’t tie her up good enough because she got out and came after me.”

A man told police that he was walking home around 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 20 after a night of drinking when he was attacked by two unknown men on the 300 block of West Illinois Street. The offenders took the man’s wallet, which contained $250 in cash, along with his iPhone. The man, who was still intoxicated when he reported the incident, was treated for minor injuries at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

A 28-year-old woman was riding on a CTA train on the afternoon of Nov. 18 when a man believed to be in his early 20s walked up and snatched the device from her before exiting at the Chicago Brown Line station. The computer was estimated to be worth $600.

At 4:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, a man from California was standing outside of the Sutton Place Hotel, at 21 E. Bellevue St., when an unknown man wearing a black sweatshirt approached him and asked for the time. The man, 23, looked at his watched, and when he turned back up the stranger was pointing a handgun at him. The offender told him to hand over his belongings and the man complied, turning over his wallet which contained his ID card and $300 in cash. The offender then fled in an unknown direction, and the man proceeded to his destination, Midway Airport, where he contacted police.

An Arlington Heights resident was texting on her iPhone while standing on the 500 block of North Wabash Avenue when a man walked up beside her and attempted to grab the phone out of her hands. The woman, 35, struggled to hold onto the phone, but the man was able to pull it away. The offender, who was part of a large group of men, then fled in an unknown direction. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the suspect. The victim told police that the stolen phone was worth $500.The incident occurred at 3:00 p.m. on Nov. 20.