{"id":171940,"date":"2026-04-21T15:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171940\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T15:45:10","slug":"1-8-million-stolen-from-armored-truck-in-philadelphias-tacony-section-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171940\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.8 million stolen from armored truck in Philadelphia&#8217;s Tacony section, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pair of armed men stole $1.8 million from an armored truck in the Tacony section of Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, police sources told Action News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The robbery happened around 9:45 a.m. in the 7200 block of Torresdale Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, two men armed with assault rifles robbed the Brinks truck, and sources say the men fled in a blue getaway car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chopper 6 was over the scene, where the truck was seen pulled over on the side of the road.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Police are on the scene of a reported armored truck robbery in the Tacony section of Philadelphia.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/68b8751bd0fed407d73e276ebf5b67c2.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police are on the scene of a reported armored truck robbery in the Tacony section of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The FBI is now leading this investigation, sources said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pair of armed men stole $1.8 million from an armored truck in the Tacony section of Philadelphia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[900,77130,77131,77132,69,71,70,29418],"class_list":["post-171940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-action-news","tag-armored-truck","tag-armored-truck-robbery","tag-brinks-truck","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-police-sources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}