Clerk foils robbery with package of Mexican pastries

DEMING, N.M. -- Robbers, beware of clerks wielding pastries.

Police in Deming, said a clerk foiled a robbery last week when she hit the culprit on the back of the head with a package of empanadas, a type of Latin American pastry.

Police say the masked man had grabbed the cash register at Amigo's Mexican Food and tried to flee.

Deming police Capt. Brandon Gigante said the man dropped the register when the clerk threw the pastries and hit him.

Barbara Orquiz, who owns Amigo's with her husband, said the cash register's cord got caught when the man tried to take it. The clerk saw him grab it, screamed and got him with the empanadas.

Orquiz said the man was covering his head as he ran away.