GADSDEN, Alabama -- Gadsden police were able to recover a stolen cash register Monday after a man took it from a Pizza Hut through the restaurant's drive-thru window.

According to police reports, the incident happened at 6:20 p.m. Monday at Pizza Hut in the 600 block of East Meighan Boulevard. Employees said a heavy set white man with dark brown eyes, dressed in a blue ski mask and blue puffy jacket came through the drive-thru window and attempted to grab the cash register.

The register was attached to a computer, but the man tried to wrench it free with one hand. A witness said the man kept his other hand in his pocket, as though he had a weapon concealed.

An employee screamed, while another called 911. The man then fled south on Nuckolls Street. The cash register was later found behind a bus on the property of East Gadsden Baptist Church. There was no mention of any money missing.