Police later located an Acura car that investigators believe was used in the robbery. It was found under I-95 in the area of Front Street and Fairmont Avenue.
An armored Brinks truck was robbed on Tuesday morning in Northeast Philadelphia, with the armed robbers making off with a reported $1.8 million.
Per CBS Philadelphia, police responded to the 7200 block of Torresdale Avenue at around 9:43 am for reports of a robbery in progress. The suspects in the case, two men, were carrying rifles.
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Police later located an Acura car that investigators believe was used in the robbery. It was found under I-95 in the area of Front Street and Fairmont Avenue.
Per ABC 6, the Brinks truck had been servicing a budget financial center in the area when the two armed men approached the truck. Police sources told the outlet that the pair stole $1.8 million from the truck. The FBI is now leading the investigation.
This is the latest in a year-long string of armored truck heists in the Philadelphia area. Per the Philadelphia Inquirer, three men were charged in June for stealing around $2 million from a truck in Port Richmond. In the same month, an armed man stole around $700,000 from a Brinks truck in Cheltenham Township, and two armed men held up a Loomis driver in Northeast Philadelphia, taking around $100,000.
Three men robbed a Brinks driver in July on Frankford Avenue, taking an undisclosed amount of cash. Less than two weeks later, two armed men attempted to rob a Brinks driver in Rhawnhurst, but fled.
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