Package of Pastries Helps Foil N.M. Restaurant Robbery

DEMING, N.M. (CBS/AP) Bandits, beware of clerks wielding pastries.

Police in Deming, N.M., say a restaurant worker 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 didn't say a word when he grabbed the cash register at Amigo's Mexican Food and tried to flee.

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

Barbara Orquiz, who owns Amigo's with her husband, Arnold, says the cash register's cord got caught when the man tried to take it.

The clerk saw him grab it, screamed and nailed him with the empanadas.

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