CLARENDON, Vt. (AP)—When a man tried to hold up a restaurant in what would have been Rutland County’s seventh armed robbery this month, a female employee wrestled the gun from him and sent him fleeing into the woods.
Workers were closing the Whistle Stop Restaurant on Route 103 Saturday when the unidentified man came through a back door with a gun shortly after 7 pm, Vermont State Police at Rutland reported.
The man confronted one of the female employees, police said, only to have her struggle and take the gun from him. The man then fled on foot into nearby woods, according to police.
Police and a search dog failed to find the man, who was described as about five feet seven inches tall and wearing a dark ski mask and dark ski jacket.
The incident is the seventh to be reported in the region this month.
On October 14, a five-foot-seven-inch man wielding a crowbar took several hundred dollars from a Macs Convenience Store on South Main Street in Rutland.
The same store reported another robbery four days later, when a masked man holding a handgun took money after fighting with a clerk.
State Police at Rutland asked anyone with information about the latest robbery attempt to call 802-773-9101.
