BAYONNE -- A man threatened a 7-Eleven employee with a knife after stuffing $32 worth of Hostess cupcakes down his pant early Friday, police said.

A 33-year-old employee called the cops and told them a man wielding a knife had robbed the Avenue C convenience store, authorities said.

The employee told the police he saw the man stuffing the packaged pastries down his pants and after telling him to put the merchandise back, he was verbally threatened, police said.

The man pointed the knife at him, threatened to cut him, and then fled the store with the cupcakes, police said.

No arrest was made but the incident remains under investigation.

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