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Armed Robbers Wearing "Scream" Masks Steal $310K in Armored Truck Heist

Armored car driver shaking as he tells a witness this isn't the first time he's been robbed

By Vince Lattanzio
|  Friday, Nov 1, 2013  |  Updated 7:52 AM EDT
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Armed Robbers Wearing "Scream" Masks Steal $310K in Armored Truck Heist

Armored car driver shaking as he tells a witness this isn't the first time he's been robbed

By Vince Lattanzio
|  Friday, Nov 1, 2013  |  Updated 7:52 AM EDT
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Police are looking for robbers who got away with $310,000 from an armored vehicle. The robbers wore "scream masks" during the heist.
Robbers Stole $310K From Armored Truck
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Armed robbers, wearing masks from the movieScream, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars in a brazen armored truck heist in Northeast Philadelphia.
The robbery went down at Frankford Avenue and Rhawn Street in the Holmesburg section of the city around 10 a.m. on Thursday, police say.
The Garda armored truck was in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo Bank branch when two armed robbers, dressed in all black and wearing theScream masks, descended on the vehicle.
Witnesses tell NBC10 Philadelphia they saw the robbers carrying assault rifles as they attacked the armored truck driver, who was holding bags of cash.
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FBI spokeswoman Carrie Adamowski says the men were able to steal $310,000. Agents also say they have not determined whether the men were using assault rifles or shotguns.
One witness said he heard the driver tell police the robbers 'blindsided him' and even roughed him up a bit as they grabbed the cash.
"I went over and asked the guy if he was OK," witness Gabriel Montalvo said. "He just said 'I'm fine.' I said, 'You're shaking. You sure your OK?' He said 'I'm fine, this isn't the first time I've been robbed.'"
The criminals fled in a green Plymouth Voyager minivan, which the FBI says was driven by the third suspect. 
"They had a van waiting for them. They jumped in the minivan and they were gone," witness Maran Harner said. Police say that minivan was reported stolen from Upper Darby, Pa. in August.
They later ditched that minivan several blocks away along the 3400 block of Arthur Street.
Officials say the robbers then got into another vehicle, a gold Pontiac Bonneville, and eventually ditched that car in a wooded residential area several blocks away.
Police and the FBI are at each scene and investigating.
Agents have collected surveillance video from from a nearby doctor's office and the bank.

NBC10.com
Police are looking for robbers who got away with $310,000 from an armored vehicle. The robbers wore "scream masks" during the heist.
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Armed robbers, wearing masks from the movieScream, have stolen hundreds of thousands of dollars in a brazen armored truck heist in Northeast Philadelphia.
The robbery went down at Frankford Avenue and Rhawn Street in the Holmesburg section of the city around 10 a.m. on Thursday, police say.
The Garda armored truck was in the parking lot of a Wells Fargo Bank branch when two armed robbers, dressed in all black and wearing theScream masks, descended on the vehicle.
Witnesses tell NBC10 Philadelphia they saw the robbers carrying assault rifles as they attacked the armored truck driver, who was holding bags of cash.
RELATED STORIES
FBI spokeswoman Carrie Adamowski says the men were able to steal $310,000. Agents also say they have not determined whether the men were using assault rifles or shotguns.
One witness said he heard the driver tell police the robbers 'blindsided him' and even roughed him up a bit as they grabbed the cash.
"I went over and asked the guy if he was OK," witness Gabriel Montalvo said. "He just said 'I'm fine.' I said, 'You're shaking. You sure your OK?' He said 'I'm fine, this isn't the first time I've been robbed.'"
The criminals fled in a green Plymouth Voyager minivan, which the FBI says was driven by the third suspect. 
"They had a van waiting for them. They jumped in the minivan and they were gone," witness Maran Harner said. Police say that minivan was reported stolen from Upper Darby, Pa. in August.
They later ditched that minivan several blocks away along the 3400 block of Arthur Street.
Officials say the robbers then got into another vehicle, a gold Pontiac Bonneville, and eventually ditched that car in a wooded residential area several blocks away.
Police and the FBI are at each scene and investigating.
Agents have collected surveillance video from from a nearby doctor's office and the bank.

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Speaking to the London Evening Standard, Blige says, "She (Whitney) was such a gift from God, such a star -- her voice was like no other. Same with Michael Jackson: two such amazing gifts. And no one was there for them. You have thousands of people around you because you're this big star, but no one around you really cares. I saw a tragic situation coming for me and I looked around and saw that nobody cared, not really. They were happy for me to suffer, to drink myself to death, as long as they were getting what they needed. The industry makes its money on people's demise. The way I was living, I should have been dead. ... All the money and fame in the world couldn't change what was going on in my heart. That's how messed up I was, and how depressed I was. I was drinking, I was doing drugs, so I couldn't even feel or see anything, and that made it alright for the moment, until I had to come down and look for some more."