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A masked gunman swiped a cool half-million dollars in cash from an armored truck during a broad-daylight heist in Brooklyn yesterday, police said.
The man hopped into the fortified truck parked at Rockaway Parkway and Seaview Avenue in Canarsie shortly after 10:30 a.m., when a guard inside mistook him for his partner, who had just made a drop-off at a check-cashing store.
The thief pointed his gun at the guard’s head and ordered him to drive off.
The gunman ordered the driver to stop a few minutes later when they reached Linden Boulevard. There, he snatched a white duffel bag filled with $500,000 in cash and fled, cops said.
There were no injuries.
Cops were scouring surveillance-camera footage, and Investigators were also canvassing the neighborhood for witnesses, whiledetectives were doing background checks on current and former employees of Rapid Armored Corp., which owns the truck.
A dispatcher at Rapid Armored declined to discuss the incident.
“That’s under investigation,” he said.
Rapid Armored Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Pay-O-MaticCorp., is licensed as an armored car carrier by the United States Department of Transportation and the New York State Department of State.
After thieves swiped $350,000 from an armored truck in Manhattan in 2008, it took investigators just a few hours to nail the culprit, a company employee.
Suspect Robert Blackmon had called in sick that day, and robbed a Dunbar Armored co-worker as she was dropping off cash at a branch of M & T Bank, at 397 First Avenue.
Four years later, investigators arrested his alleged accomplice -- the guard who was robbed.
By the time the authorities closed in on the suspects, the money had all been spent.
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