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NEW YORK (AP) -- Hijackers posing as police commandeered a FedEx tractor-trailer loaded with Christmas presents and kidnapped the driver, but the would-be Grinches let him go early Friday and abandoned the rig full of packages, police said.
Six metal air freight containers stuffed with shipments were found locked in the 18-wheeler. The busy company was scrambling to determine whether anything was missing.
The heist began Thursday night on a Manhattan street as the truck headed to Newark, New Jersey. :rofl:
A maroon sport utility vehicle cut off the truck and the hijackers got out and flashed two guns and a silver badge, police said.
The driver told police he thought there was a third suspect as well and the men had heavy Eastern European accents.
They forced the driver face-down into the back of the SUV, told him to handcuff himself and drove him around for three hours before abandoning him in Brooklyn.
The driver, who was not identified, flagged down a patrol car. The truck was found abandoned nearby.
Sandra Munoz, a spokeswoman at FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, said the truck was in police custody and the company could not immediately determine if anything was missing or estimate the value of the cargo. The truck can hold as much as 80,000 pounds when full.
No suspects have been identified and no arrests made
Six metal air freight containers stuffed with shipments were found locked in the 18-wheeler. The busy company was scrambling to determine whether anything was missing.
The heist began Thursday night on a Manhattan street as the truck headed to Newark, New Jersey. :rofl:
A maroon sport utility vehicle cut off the truck and the hijackers got out and flashed two guns and a silver badge, police said.
The driver told police he thought there was a third suspect as well and the men had heavy Eastern European accents.
They forced the driver face-down into the back of the SUV, told him to handcuff himself and drove him around for three hours before abandoning him in Brooklyn.
The driver, who was not identified, flagged down a patrol car. The truck was found abandoned nearby.
Sandra Munoz, a spokeswoman at FedEx headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, said the truck was in police custody and the company could not immediately determine if anything was missing or estimate the value of the cargo. The truck can hold as much as 80,000 pounds when full.
No suspects have been identified and no arrests made
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