Police in North Carolina are looking for a knife-wielding girl who climbed via the drive-thru window at a Taco Bell and stole a drawer of money from the register.

Winston-Salem Police Division responded at 4:24 p.m. Saturday to a report of an armed theft on the restaurant at 345 Akron Drive, in accordance with a information launch issued by the division.

Investigators mentioned the suspect was "swinging a knife" as she entered the restaurant's drive-thru window, the place she was in a position to retrieve a drawer from the money register throughout the incident.

Police described the suspect as a feminine in her 40s, sporting a inexperienced shirt and holding a "giant knife."

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Police are looking for the lady who wielded a knife via the drive-thru of a Taco Bell in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Proven is a normal view of the Taco Bell company headquarters on Oct. 26, 2020, in Irvine, California.AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/Getty

The girl escaped with an unknown amount of cash after fleeing in a brown SUV that was ready within the space.

Workers of the Taco Bell had been unhurt throughout the incident, police mentioned.

"No extra info is on the market for launch presently," in accordance with the information launch.

The investigation stays ongoing.

Anybody with info is requested to name the Winston-Salem Police Division at 336-773-7700 or to make use of the division's Textual content-A-Tip program at (336) 276-1717.

Ideas might be offered anonymously to Crime Stoppers at (336) 727-2800 or on-line.

The Taco Bell theft is considered one of a number of incidents of crime at eating places in latest weeks in Winston-Salem, a municipality within the Piedmont Triad area of North Carolina, in addition to throughout the U.S.

In accordance with WFMY Information 2, a firefighter was shot and one other man injured March 26 exterior Kermit's Scorching Canine Home at 2200 Thomasville Street.

Ross Michael Flynt and different firefighters had been on obligation and consuming exterior, and the second sufferer, Patrick Dawarde Carter, had simply left along with his meals when somebody in a blue automotive shot at prospects earlier than fleeing the scene.

Each victims survived, and police arrested Elijah Tyshawn Stanton, 18, of Excessive Level, and Kristan Jevon Allen, 21, of Winston-Salem, in addition to Keon Rush, 18, recognized as the driving force of the blue automotive.

Stanton and Allen had been charged with assault with a lethal weapon inflicting critical damage with intent to kill in addition to discharging a firearm into an occupied property.

Different violent incidents at drive-thrus have occurred in latest months at fast-food eating places.

On March 31, the Dallas Police Division investigated the deadly capturing of a 19-year-old at a Elevating Cane's drive-thru, the place Zuri Andrew Goff was shot a number of occasions whereas sitting in a automotive.

That report adopted a number of others, together with one in January at a Missouri McDonald's, the place an worker was shot and injured in a reduction dispute.

And in Los Angeles in January, a Taco Bell buyer shot and killed an worker who declined counterfeit cash for fee.