‘Empanada Hero’ gains national attention
The story of the attempted theft last Wednesday of a cash register from Amigo’s Mexican Food in the 1200 block of East Poplar Street has grown legs.
Radio and television stations have hopped on the story as fast as a woman clerk at Amigo’s foiled the attempted robbery when she threw a bag of empanadas at the would-be robber. Amigo’s owner Arnold Orquiz and his wife Barbara have fielded calls from as far as Illinois from those wanting to know about the misguided caper.
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“She was behind the counter,” Orquiz says of the clerk. “He (would-be robber) didn’t see her, and he went for the register and got the whole damn thing. The cord got caught.
“She saw him, and screamed and grabbed package of empanadas.”
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Jill Galus, of El Paso’s KVIA-TV, was at Amigo’s Mexican Food, Wednesday, interviewing customers Deborah Dickens and Manny Pastran about last week’s attempted robbery, foiled by a clerk who threw a bag of empanadas at the would-be robber. (Kevin Buey/Headlight Photo)
A bag of empanadas helped foil a robbery last week at Amigo’s Mexican Food. (Monica Gutierrez/Headlight Photo)