Armed robbers in latest Philadelphia-area Brinks truck heist took $700,000 or more, police say
Philadelphia (AP) -Polis is investigating whether a Brink truck’s armed robbery on Tuesday, except for a Philadelphia region store, is related to four other attacks on armored vehicles around and around this summer.
According to the Cheltenham Township police, two armed men fled between $ 700,000 to 800,000 dollars in March on Tuesday, Tuesday, in March in Elkins Park. Police said that the robberies, one of whom were armed with an A-15-style pistol, escaped from cash and then left their vehicles nearby. No shot was made and no one was injured.
Cheltenham Township Police Lieutenant Andrew Snyder said that this was the first robbery in its districts, but the authorities are investigating whether the police and the FBI have probably been related to the four weapons robbery in and around Philadelphia, which they probably researched.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday, three people arrested in early August from Philadelphia, on June 21, a threshold outside a home tank armored vehicle was accused of an armed robbery of $ 2 million, he said.
Five days later, a loomis armored transportation tool was kept except for an Aldi in a different neighborhood. Later, on July 2, a brink truck was kept in a shopping center except for a dollar general. And on July 15, the police had a report of two suspects who robbed one of the armored vehicles in Northeast Philadelphia.
FBI agent Wayne Jacobs told CBS News Philadelphia that the law enforcement officers have recovered most of the money stolen in the June 21, and a series of long weapons and pistols. Authorized, some of the money was spent on jewelry, clothes and other items.
“This is the type of activity you will enter, if you look at the timeline, six weeks from the time of arrest to the time of arrest, Jac said Jacobs.
