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FBI addresses armored truck robberies after 3 men arrested for June incident
The FBI and Philly police are investigating after a former Brinks employee and two other men were arrested and accused of orchestrating a $2M robbery of an armored truck in the city earlier this summer.
PHILADELPHIA - A former Brinks employee is among three men accused of orchestrating a $2M robbery of an armored truck in Philadelphia earlier this summer.
What we know:
Trayvine Jackson, Brian Wallace, and Daishaun "Daisha" Hughes-Murchison were charged in the June 21 gunpoint robbery outside a Home Depot in Port Richmond.
Prosecutors believe a Brinks truck driver was walking down an alley behind the hardware store when two men armed with AR-style rifles approached him from behind.
The gunmen forced the driver to the ground, disarmed him of his company-issued firearm, and took the keys to the armored truck.
Investigators believe that one of the armed suspects stayed with the driver while the other went to the Brinks truck and stole approximately $2M.
NEW YORK, NY - July 2020: MANDATORY CREDIT Bill Tompkins/Getty Images Brinks signage on July 2020 in New York City. (Photo by Bill Tompkins/Getty Images)
The two men then fled to a waiting Hyundai Sonata with a temporary Virginia license plate, and were followed by another man in a Ford Fusion.
Investigators later learned through video surveillance that Wallace had rented the Hyundai used in the robbery.
Surveillance video showed Wallace getting into Hughes-Murchison's Ford Focus after he returned the Hyundai a short time after the robbery.
Brinks told investigators that Jackson was an employee, until he was suspended and terminated after an internal investigation.
Local perspective:
Police are working to determine if the Brinks truck robbery is linked to other similar gunpoint robberies of armored trucks in the Philadelphia area.
The latest happened on Tuesday when two armed men robbed $700,000 from a Brinks truck parked in a Cheltenham strip mall parking lot.
Armored truck robbery in Cheltenham under investigation after 3 other similar incidents: police
New video from police captures the moment another armored truck robbery occurred in the Philadelphia area. This one happened in Cheltenham Tuesday.
"It’s definitely dangerous for everybody and we’re investigating the possibility this may be linked to other armored car robberies in the area, as well as some that were in Philadelphia," said Lt. Andy Snyder of the Cheltenham Township Police Department.