Amazon, UPS drivers hit with back-to-back armed robberies in Washington, DC

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Amazon, UPS drivers hit with back-to-back armed robberies in Washington, DC
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A UPS driver and an Amazon driver were victims of armed robberies in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, with the incidents happening just 30 minutes apart.

UPS and Amazon trucks were targeted in two armed robberies just 30 minutes apart in southeast Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, police said. The Metropolitan Police Department reported an armed robbery of a UPS truck driver on Tuesday morning in the 1000 block of Cook Drive Southeast, according to Fox 5 DC. Then, about 30 minutes later, there was another armed robbery, this time the target being an Amazon truck driver in the 800 block of Cook Drive Southeast.

Police released surveillance images in February after alcohol was stolen from the back of a delivery truck. Late last year in nearby Prince George's County, Maryland, a UPS driver saw thieves driving off with her truck. 'Crime only occurs when you have three elements — motive, means, and opportunity,' Parks said. 'We have to figure out a way to eliminate one if not all of those elements.

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