An employee of the Taco Bell in the 8000 block of Veterans Highway was cut on the left hand, right arm, neck and chest during a robbery Thursday morning, police said.

A man walked up to the drive-in window around 1 a.m., ordered food, then reached into the open cash register. The employee, Kenneth Schmansky, 26, tried to hold onto the man's arm, but the man started stabbing him with a large knife, police said.

The man broke away and fled with an undetermined amount of cash. Mr. Schmansky was treated at North Arundel Hospital and released.

POLICE LOG

Severna Park: A man walked into the High's Store at the corner of Baltimore-Annapolis Boulevard and Riggs Avenue about 9 a.m. Thursday, forced a clerk into a cooler, took money from the cash register and the clerk's purse, then left, county

police said.