Crime

Greenhouse bandit makes clean getaway, plants and all, say Pa. police

By Barry Leibowitz

June 21, 2013 / 8:34 AM EDT / CBS News

This Nov. 2008 image provided by the British Columbia Ministry of Forests and Range shows seedlings grown for their first year in a greenhouse, then bundled and taken to the field for planting, at a nursery in Vernon, British Columbia. — Police in western Pennsylvania say a gunman stole plants - not from this greenhouse, but you get the picture - and made his getaway on foot, Tuesday, June 18, 2013. AP/Michael Carlson, British Columbia Government

(CBS/AP) MAMMOTH, Pa. - A gunman demanded money and stole some plants from a western Pennsylvania greenhouse before getting away on foot Tuesday, according to state police.

Troopers from the Greensburg barracks say the man robbed the Amenity Farm and Greenhouse in Mount Pleasant Township about 6 p.m. Tuesday about 6 p.m.

Police say the robber with the green thumb hadn't been identified or arrested as of Wednesday.

The Greensburg greenhouse is located about 35 miles east of Pittsburgh.