Attempted robbery outside PNC Bank on Market Street

BOARDMAN

Township police are investigating an attempted robbery that occurred outside the PNC Bank on Market Street on Monday night.

About 9 p.m., an employee of a nearby business told police a man approached her and tried to rob her as she made the business’s nightly deposit at PNC.

The man told her to give him the bag, and she told him it was just checks, according to a police report. The man continued to approach until two cars passed by and he fled on foot.

Police do not have a suspect at this time.