NORTH VERSAILLES, Pa. -- An armed woman ordered dozens of players to their knees and robbed the Eastland Bingo Hall on Thursday night, police said.

Just before 9 p.m., the woman went into the office of the bingo hall on Route 30 and pulled out a gun, police said.

"She walked over to the office and confronted the woman who was manning the register and said, basically, give me all the money," North Versailles police Chief James Comunale said.

When the cashier was putting the money into a bag, the robber waived the gun around the hall, telling the 60 to 70 people who were inside to get down, according to witnesses.

With the victims on the floor, the robber took more money off the tables and left with about $2,000 in just a few minutes, police said.

No one was hurt. The robber ran away in the direction of Navy-Marine Corps Way, witnesses said.

"We've had some other ones in the past, but that's why I asked my sergeant when he called me, 'Are you sure it's a woman?' No, they believe for sure it's a woman that did this," Comunale said.

The woman was wearing a bandana, which is making it difficult for people to describe what she looked like.

Witnesses described her as a thin, light-skinned black woman, about 5 feet 5 inches tall, and in her 20s.

"I think it's a wake-up call for anybody who has these bingos, because they are a cash-type business, because they are going to have cash on hand, so maybe they all need to rethink how they do things," Comunale said.

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