$10,000 reward offered in robbery of armored car employee
PORTLAND, Ore. - Portland police are looking for a man they said grabbed two boxes of cash from an armored car employee and quickly disappeared Friday morning.
The incident took place at about 6:30 a.m. at the OnPoint Credit Union, located in the 1700 block of NE Ninth Avenue.
A Loomis Security armored car employee told police she was walking from the armored car to an ATM when a man "came out of nowhere," grabbed two cases containing money she was carrying and then ran off on NE Ninth Avenue.
The worker was armed but Sgt. Pete Simpson with Portland Police said no shots were fired and the suspect was not armed.
Police did not specify how much money was taken and said the cases were black and about the size of shoeboxes. The Loomis Security worker was not hurt.
The suspect was described by Sgt. Simpson as a male of unknown race in his early to mid-20s, about 6 feet tall with a thin build.
He was wearing a dark-colored jacket with a sports team logo and hood that was over his head. He was also wearing white gloves, police said.
Loomis Armored U.S., LLC is offering a reward of $10,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect or suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Robbery detail at 503-823-0405.
It's dark at 6:30am, if his face is covered none of you could see him either, NO they don't work in pairs anymore, the boxes have handles and are easily carried 2 in one hand to leave the weapon hand free, regardless of the level of vigilance there are X factors you cannot always be ready for, and just like a bank teller, armored is trained to comply and not fight for the money, and YOU Cannot shoot someone who snatches and runs.  So Go Do The Damn Job Before You All Sit Here Safe And Sound Judging her and Using Your ATM's Daily without any consideration to the risk someone takes every damn day to make your lives easier.Â
Speaking of armored cars, I'm surprised The Rose Garden doesn't use an armored car to deliver their hotdogs.
At 8.50 each there must be a couple hundred thousand bucks worth of hotdogs with every delivery.
Hmmm... inside job maybe?
 @Scotty9 That was my original thought also. I mean....really? You can't even describe the guys RACE? Aren't you trained to notice things like this, and be extra aware of your surroundings when carrying large amounts of cash??
It was Bill Murray. I saw him do it several times on Groundhog Day.
Back when I worked in a mall jewelry store the amored car carriers always walked in pairs while transporting money. I have noticed through the years that this has been changing. I would never have a carrier do ATM work solo! This is where they are the most vulnerable! Then they said two shoe box sized cases..... ATM's are $20 bill dispenseries. How many packed $20s could fit in a shoe box? If I were the company that owned the ATM, I would be seriouly looking at a change of armored carriers..... How was she carrying the TWO cases to where someone could grab them both as they ran by? Sounds like a lot of complacencey on the job. Now watch the tweakers try to copy cat this.
Frankly, I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often!
Let's see?????? The crook was unarmed the guard had a gun. Something smells fishy here, folks. I smell inside job.
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You can't shoot somebody for theft.
This does not seem like a spur of the moment opportunity for the thief!
Another sign that the economy is on the way up. The summer of recovery three was a raging success!
Just an FYI to people looking to steal like this.
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You will get caught. No surveillance camera? You think so? What about die packs? Makes money worthless. ETS or GPS paper in there? Probably.
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Can you defeat ALL of these systems and get to keep the money? Likely no.
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There is a reason people don't do this very often, and it's not because no one is cleaver enough. IF this was a successful way to steal, organized crime would have been doing it for decades.
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 @Repoman Dye packs are only used when the robber demands money and even then, not every time.  Bank robbers know this and play the odds.
From the description, it sounds as if this guy had researched the location and schedule of the armed guard(s). Â seems to be too thoroughly perpetrated to have been a spur-of-the-moment robbery.
This is awesome, always thought about doing something like this myself!
The only sad fact is that our currency is going down the tubes and it will become completely worthless within a few years!
I think the armored personnel are trained when to shoot and when not to shoot, and this person did right, besides, you can't find out who else involved when you kill the guy that can give the entire ring. Or maybe the guy just needed some Christmas money. Chances are he will be bragging to his buddies and will wind up forfeiting all his new found wealth just because he was to crazed to spend it fast and furious. Yup the chap will be found soon.
 @lee986321 I don't think even the police are allowed to shoot an unarmed man running away. There has to be some sort of life threatening reason to use your firearm by police or CHL holder either for you or someone else.
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As much as we would all like to see the criminals brought down you just can't do it....
 @FreedomRocks  @lee986321 True. Private security is subject to the same laws as private citizens regarding use of force, i.e., you can only use it to defend your life or someone else's life if threatened.
Frankly it's surprising this doesn't happen more often. It's hard to steal money from ATMs and armored cars, but very easy to snatch from a person who's not paying attention to their environment. I wonder where the armored car employee's partner was during this incident? Don't they normally work in pairs? Why didn't the partner try to intervene? I wonder if they're trained to let the money go like 7-11 employees are..
 @StealthActivist Perhaps they do work in tandem. One stays in the vehcile to ensure the protection of the rest of the "goods" in the truck while the other is the courier and stocks the ATMs. Many people do not realize but many of these armored companies also replenish and stock the ATMS, not just hauling the day's receipts.
it's illegal to shoot someone in the back running away form you and the employee would have been arrested. She did the right thing not shooting the guy. money is not a reason to kill someone.
 @32jim2 Sad but true...
Why does she have a gun if she won't use it?
 @Jamie To protect her life and apparently this guy did not directly cause enough threat or it was to fast for her to have a legal reason to shoot him.
 @Jamie Probably didn't want to shoot her husband.
@Heckofadeal @Jamie I think you know more then you are telling us about this. If there is a $1,000.00 reward I am declairing I turned you in here and now.
 @Zechariah That's fine. Will you share the reward?
Apparently this "armored car" wasn't very "armored".
Should've shot him in the rear!
She's getting fired
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I had a friend who worked "in the back" of an armored truck.
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A bag with over $100,000 was "lost" when he failed to secure it and it fell off the back of the truck. A Good Samaritan turned it in.
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He was fired before he even got back to the barn.