$500,000 Taken From Armored Car
Two masked men wearing black clothes and carrying handguns robbed an armored truck Friday in Van Nuys, fleeing with nearly $500,000, police said.
The thieves stuffed the cash into canvas bags and ran through an alley near Odessa Avenue and Victory Boulevard, said Officer Guillermo Campos, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman.
The men may have fled in a white minivan, police said.
No shots were fired in the 10:45 a.m. holdup at Sherman Way and Orion Avenue. Neither of the two Armored Transport Inc. security guards was injured, Campos said. No further details were available.
LAPD robbery-homicide detectives are asking for the public’s help. Anyone with information is asked to call (213) 485-2511.
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