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SALT LAKE CITY — A store clerk was attacked Thursday morning when he tried to stop a man from breaking into a vending machine.
The man tried to break into the machine at the Love convenience store at 25 N. Redwood Road around 5:30 a.m., according to Lt. Dave Cracroft of the Salt Lake City Police Department.
When the clerk tried to stop him, the man attacked the clerk with a crowbar. The clerk caught the crowbar and ripped it away, Cracroft said.
The man then fled. The clerk was not seriously injured.
Cracroft said this may be the same man who has stolen over $33,000 from vending machines in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada.
