A 21-year-old man was arrested Friday night after employees of a South Sacramento taco stand fought him off during an attempted armed robbery, authorities said. According to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the man allegedly tried to rob a taco stand near Fruitridge Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at gunpoint about 9:30 p.m.

Employees of a taco stand were able to fight back and hold down a man who deputies said tried to rob them at gunpoint on Friday night in south Sacramento.

Armed robbers struck a local taco stand in South.

Employees of the taco stand wrestled the man to the ground and knocked the gun loose. They held him down until Sacramento Police officers and Sacramento County deputies arrived to take McGrath into custody, the sheriff’s office said.