By SCOTT INGLIS
A gang of security truck robbers, responsible for five violent raids, may have struck again after two guards were robbed of up to $100,000 in Auckland yesterday.
Two balaclava-clad robbers, one armed with a rifle or shotgun, robbed the Chubb security van guards in Torbay, on the North Shore, at 11.30 am.
Detectives say it is possible the robbers were part of the same professional team that terrorised Armourguard last year, striking five times in four months, shooting one guard and firing at another.
In the Torbay raid, the two guards pulled up in the Torbay shops carpark in Beach Rd to fill up an ASB money machine.
As one guard got out with two cashboxes, containing between $50,000 and $100,000, the robbers pulled up behind in a stolen red Mitsubishi L300 van.
One of the robbers, carrying the firearm, approached the guard and demanded that he turn away and drop the boxes.
The robber snatched the money and he and his accomplice fled. They dumped the Mitsubishi van in nearby Awaruku Rd, swapping it for a stolen silver Mitsubishi Pajero, registration number WR5347.
The Pajero had been parked in adjoining June Place since about 8 am yesterday.
Both vehicles were stolen overnight Sunday within about 200m of each other in the Bellevue Rd area of Mt Eden.
Police appealed for anyone who saw the vehicles being stolen or the Pajero being parked to come forward. The Pajero, with a full stainless-steel roof tray, had still not been found last night.
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