Robbers can't get ATM, despite crashing truck into Sunnyvale pharmacy

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Two employees at a Sunnyvale pharmacy were bound early Friday by two masked men who also tried unsuccessfully to crack an automatic teller machine with a pickup, a sheriff's spokeswoman said.

Deputies were summoned at 4:45 a.m. to the CVS Pharmacy in the 3600 block of North Belt Line Road, said Kim Leach, Dallas County Sheriff's spokeswoman.

The workers told deputies that the masked men forced their way into the store, Leach said. Their hands and feet were bound, but Leach said she didn't know if they had been "hog tied."

"One suspect went out and got a stolen pickup and rammed the front of the building," Leach said. "They were trying to destroy the ATM, but they were unable to get into it. They fled on foot."

The workers, a man and a woman, were not hurt in the heist, but deputies said the truck went 30 feet into the store.

There were no arrests Friday morning, Leach said.

BILL MILLER, 817-390-7684

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