LAPORTE, Ind. - A man wearing a white Halloween mask fell through the ceiling of a check-cashing store, but managed to escape with an unknown amount of money from the safe, police said.
The man surprised a clerk Saturday as he fell through the ceiling and locked her in a back room as customers and other employees were outside, police Capt. Lynn Cains said.
"The parking lot was full," he said. "It was a typical Saturday morning where everybody was shopping and running around."
The robber and two other men apparently waited for several hours in an empty office next door to the Cash in a Flash store before they climbed into the ceiling about 10:30 a.m.
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