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Men With Machete, Crowbar Rob Cromwell Taco Bell, Employees

The robbers fled and police are looking for them,

Police are looking for two men who they said robbed a Taco Bell in Cromwell Monday morning with a machete and a crowbar and forced the employees to open the safe and empty their own pockets of valuables. 

Police responded to reports of a robbery at Taco Bell on Shunpike Road at 2:36 a.m. after a man with a machete and another who had a crowbar went in through an unlocked door and had the employees empty a safe, then empty their pockets of valuables, according to police. 

After that, the robbers led the employees out of the back and had them wait outside while they fled with money, police said. 

No one was injured in the robbery. 

Cromwell officers who responded to the robbery saw a tan Honda Accord leaving the area with its headlights off and tried to stop it, but the driver fled at a high speed and the chase ended on Route 9. 

Four people were in the car and police said one was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and another was wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt. 

Anyone with information on the car or the people involved is asked to call Cromwell Police at 860-635-2256 and reference Case 19-9251.

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