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ASSOCIATED PRESS / FBI
Surveillance video provided by the FBI shows suspects in the robbery of a GardaWorld armored truck guard in the lobby of the HSBC bank on Broadway in the Queens borough of New York City on Friday, Jan. 31.
NEW YORK » Federal investigators are searching for three men they say held up an armored truck guard at a Queens bank in broad daylight.
Authorities didn’t disclose how much was taken in the robbery that occurred inside an ATM lobby at around noon Friday at a HSBC bank branch in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens.
They say the guard was sprayed with a chemical after making a regularly scheduled pickup at the bank.
Security photos show one of the men wearing all black pointing a handgun in the guard’s face.
Authorities say the men fled in a blue or black Ford Explorer.
Armored truck company GardaWorld has offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the case.
