Local News in Brief : Fullerton : Employee Sought in Holdup at Taco Bell
With the help of an accomplice, an employee of a fast-food restaurant tied up his manager and another employee Thursday night and made off with $725 from the cash register, police said.
The employee, whom police would not identify, was in the Taco Bell in the 500 block of North Harbor Boulevard when his accomplice entered at 11:20 p.m. and brandished a handgun, a police spokeswoman said.
The two men bound Wendy Linke, 28, of Whittier, the manager of the restaurant, and Raphael Rivera, 20, of Fullerton and locked them in a dressing room, police said.
Linke and Rivera escaped and notified police after Rivera used a pair of fingernail clippers from his pocket to cut the rope that bound him, the spokeswoman said.
No one was reported injured.
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