Five armed bandits robbed a delivery truck on the Placencia Road yesterday. Eliazar Pineda and Aaron Lopez were in their Madisco delivery truck on the Riversdale/Placencia Road when at a curve near the dump site, a pickup truck came from the opposite direction blocked the road. 5 men, some of them armed with knives and others with gun, jumped out and pulled Pineda and Lopez out of the truck.
They ripped off Pineda’s gold chain and grabbed his wallet, $40 in cash and his cell phone. They took Lopez’s wallet and about $700 in cash which was property of Madisco. The bandits then raided the delivery truck – running off with cigarettes, biscuits, clorox, and soap powder. They loaded the items into their pickup and then fled. Police are investigating.
