Six persons from San Juan County, N.M., are believed to have been involved in an armed robbery that took place early Monday morning at the Comfort Inn, 2121 E. Main, according to Montezuma County Sheriff’s Detective Lt. Kalvin Boggs.

Because the case involved juveniles, Boggs said, he was not able to release names of the suspects.

However, he said, the sheriff’s department was working Monday afternoon with San Juan County "on wrapping everything up."

He said further details would be forthcoming very soon.

Boggs said the incident took place around 1:30 a.m. Monday and that six individuals were involved.

According to Comfort Inn owner Eugene Zubrzycki, four persons wearing masks came into the hotel and confronted an employee.

"The employee was totally scared," he said. "They were wearing some sort of Halloween-type masks and threw a plastic card-holder that was on the front desk right at her."

The robbers were armed with a pistol and a shotgun, and made off with $260 in cash, he sai, adding that typically hotels do not have a lot of cash on hand, as most customers pay by credit card.

According to him, no one was injured.

Zubrzycki, who also owns the nearby Days Inn, said that police believe the same group may have intended to hit the that hotel originally.

"I was over there earlier and some guys were there ringing the bell a lot and then they were acting real nervous when they saw me," he said.

"One of them said he needed to run out to get a credit card, then they left."

Fifteen minutes later he got the call that the Comfort Inn had just been robbed.

Zubrzycki said in his 25 years in the hotel business, he has never been robbed before.