Three men, including a recently fired Brinks employee, have been charged with stealing more than $2 million from an armored truck in Philadelphia in June — the first of five such crimes in the area in less than two months, the authorities said on Wednesday.
The brazen robbery took place around 8 a.m. on June 21 behind a Home Depot on Castor Avenue in Philadelphia.
Two men approached a Brinks driver with AR-style rifles, according to complaints filed in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. One of them forced the driver to the ground, while the other took his keys to the truck and his Brinks-issued firearm, prosecutors said. While one of the robbers stayed with the driver, the other entered the truck and took $2,025,000 in cash, prosecutors said.
The three people charged in the robbery — Trayvine Jackson, 31; Brian Wallace, 31; and Daishaun Hughes-Murchison, 30, all of Philadelphia — face federal charges of robbery interfering with interstate commerce and use of a firearm in furtherance of a violent crime.
All three men appeared in court last week and are being held in federal custody, pending further proceedings. Lawyers for the men did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday.
The police are investigating whether there is a connection between the June 21 case and four other robberies or attempted robberies of armored cars, including one on Tuesday in Cheltenham Township, Pa., outside Philadelphia, in which $700,000 was taken from a Brinks trunk. The F.B.I. is assisting but declined to comment further. A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania declined to comment, as did Brinks.
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