Police blotter

The best laid plans of mice and men -- three men tied up a Poquito Mas employee and forced him to give up the restaurant's alarm code. But after getting inside the restaurant they got a little skittish and decided to cancel the job and disappear.

• The incident was reported about 6:20 yesterday morning when an employee was about to open the restaurant in the 21000 block of Ventura Boulevard in Woodland Hills. The employee had just parked his car and was approaching the business when the suspects approached. One man, armed with a knife, ordered the victim to enter their vehicle where he was tied up. The suspects demanded the alarm code to the restaurant then two of the men attempted to disarm the alarm and entered the business. Once inside, they apparently got a little nervous fearing they did not disarm the alarm. So they took off without having taken anything. The suspects took the victim’s wallet and fled in their vehicle. The victim was not injured.

• In other crime related news, police received a call about a robbery just after midnight this morning in the 4900 block of Haskell Avenue in Sherman Oaks. A female victim pulled into her driveway and was sitting in her vehicle with the door ajar when the suspect approached. The suspect with a gun at his hip demanded the victim’s purse but she refused to give it up and instead they struggled over it. The suspect then demanded her cell phone that she gave to him before he took off.