CHICAGO IL July 1 2018 A former armored truck driver accused of robbing a Brinks truck in northwest Indiana has been charged. Prosecutors said Akeem Jackson, 29, of Chicago and several others stole about $600,000 on April 28. It was the biggest robbery in Hammond’s history. The robbery occurred while the driver of the armored truck […]
HAMMOND IN June 30 2018 — A Chicago man was charged Thursday with stealing more than $600,000 in the April 28 armored truck heist that one person close to the investigation previously described as the “biggest robbery that the city (of Hammond) has ever seen.” Investigators this week allegedly found handwritten plans diagramming the Brink’s truck […]
Sycamore IL June 30 2018 An armored car was robbed Thursday morning in Sycamore. Officers responded about 9:40 p.m. when the robbery of a Thillens armored vehicle was reported in a strip mall at 1470 S. Peace Road, according to Sycamore police. Two people wearing masks robbed Thillens employees and took off in a vehicle that […]
Omaha NE June 14 2018 An armored car guard told police that he lost a semiautomatic pistol in midtown Omaha after leaving it on the rear bumper of his work vehicle before driving away. The gun was lost about 6:30 a.m. Thursday as the guard left Rochester Armored Car near 40th and Leavenworth Streets, according […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo. June 8 2018 – The eastbound lanes of Missouri Highway 152 at Shoal Creek Parkway in the Northland are back open after they were closed for a crash involving a Brinks armored car. Crews were called to the stretch of highway just after 11:30 a.m. A second vehicle, a work truck, suffered […]
MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 2 2018— A Tennessee man who was injured by an armored truck driver during an attempted robbery has been sentenced to 27 years in prison. The U.S. attorney’s office says 49-year-old Cornelius Richmond was sentenced May 23 by a federal judge in Memphis. Richmond had pleaded guilty to committing armed robberies in […]
New Orleans LA June 1 2018 The wife of an armored truck employee who was shot and killed while servicing an ATM outside a Mid-City bank last year is suing the armored truck company and the bank, claiming her husband’s death was the “result of the joint negligence” by both parties. Erica McBride, the wife of […]
Hunt Valley MD June 1 2018 Dunbar Armored Inc., a Hunt Valley-based security and cash management firm that employs 5,400, will be sold to rival The Brink’s Co. for about $520 million in cash. Brink’s, based in Coppell, Texas, announced the deal Thursday. Dunbar, a 95-year-old family-owned business, has grown into the fourth-largest U.S. cash management […]
HOUSTON TX May 17 2018 — The FBI is seeking the public’s help finding the suspects who shot and killed Brinks armored security guard Alvin Kinney. “It’s time for us to know what happened to Alvin because he mattered,” the victim’s distraught widow– Rosalind Kinney– said at a press conference on Wednesday. The armored truck guard […]
BARSTOW CA May 17 2018 — Police assisted federal agents to place a 30-year-old Barstow woman wanted on a robbery warrant behind bars last week. Barstow Police Department officials said they arrested Shantae Williams, wanted in connection to armored car robberies, early on May 11 after receiving a request from the FBI Victorville field office. Federal […]