Holdup Alarm at Highland Avenue Taco Bell Prompts Early-Morning Police Response

Employees who worked the early-morning shift at the Highland Avenue Taco Bell in Cincinnati on Feb 23, 2026, should request the police incident number and copies of the dispatch audio; public dispatch audio logs captured a holdup alarm activation and the recorded dispatch summary indicates officers were paged to the location and units responded. That recorded dispatch account is the current public record of what prompted the law enforcement response.

The dispatch audio logs show the alarm activation as a holdup or robbery alarm and describe officers being dispatched to the Highland Avenue address in the early morning hours on Feb 23. The logs do not appear in the recorded summary as routine alarm-only notifications; they reflect units responding, which means officers arrived on scene after the alarm was reported.

Store managers at the Highland Avenue Taco Bell should verify whether the alarm originated from on-site activation or an alarm-monitoring vendor and should confirm whether any employees were interviewed by responding units. Because the dispatch summary indicates officers were paged to the location, management can obtain the incident or CAD number from Cincinnati police to match the department record with the store's internal incident report and any security-camera footage covering the early-morning period on Feb 23.

Workers who were present during the alarm activation should preserve contemporaneous documentation tied to Feb 23, 2026: notes of shift start and end times, names of any coworkers on duty, and recollections of interactions with responding officers. Those working the early-morning shift can ask supervisors for copies of the store's written incident record and for the police incident number so they can request the dispatch audio or report directly from Cincinnati police if needed.

As of Feb 25, 2026, the public dispatch audio logs and the recorded dispatch summary are the available official traces of the alarm activation and the subsequent officer response. Employees and managers at the Highland Avenue Taco Bell should use those records to complete internal reports, to coordinate with law enforcement for any follow-up, and to review whether the store's alarm and safety protocols performed as expected during the early-morning activation.