FedEx Truck Hijacked In New York City - Strange Event

December 23, 2007

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Many aspects of this story just don’t make sense to me. Maybe I’ve just been doing this too long and I over analyze things.

On one hand it appears to be a planned crime and not a crime of opportunity (guns, handcuffs, badge). However, if that was the case why didn’t the hijackers bring along some type of tools to break open the seals on the containers?

Next, the hijackers had the truck for nearly 9 hours. To me that seems like plenty of time to figure out some method for opening the containers (hack saw, bolt cutters, etc), even if you hadn’t planned for this.

This is where I begin to over-analyze. What if the truck was hijacked for some other purpose and the hijackers hadn’t planned on it being full of merchandise? What if they were actually hoping to take control of an empty truck just before Christmas and use it for some other purpose?

What other purpose you ask?

Oh, I don’t know… Do you suppose that a large FedEx truck might be able to access some area of a mall or airport during the holidays without raising suspicions?

When you add to this, the hijackers talk of their Albanian homeland, the driver being released and given $60.00 to get back to Manhattan, and the fact nothing was missing when the truck was located, this story just doesn’t add up.

For now, I’ll chalk it up to too much coffee on a Sunday afternoon and an over-stimulated imagination.

The hapless hijackers who stole a loaded FedEx truck and kidnapped its driver only to abandon both after they were unable to get at the locked-up loot told their captive stories about their supposed lives in Albania and stopped for pizza during an odd five-hour odyssey, the driver said.

Forced to ride face-down and handcuffed in a sport utility vehicle with a gun to the back of his head, “I kept saying to myself, ‘If they’re going to kill me, I hope it’s fast and doesn’t hurt,” Robert McGarry said Saturday, a day after he was released on a Brooklyn street. “It was a nightmare.”

Police said Sunday no arrests had been made in the case.

McGarry, 47, said he was ambushed shortly after driving out of a FedEx facility on Manhattan’s West Side around 8:30 p.m. Thursday. A swerving SUV cut him off on 11th Avenue, and one of the hijackers leaped out, rammed a gun against the FedEx truck window, flashed a badge and yelled “police,” McGarry said.

Two forced him into the SUV while a third drove off in his delivery truck. McGarry’s captors drove him through the city, one threatening him while the other struck a more congenial, calming tone, he said.

The 18-wheeler was laden with holiday shipments, but the thieves weren’t able to get at them. They let the driver go at about 1:30 a.m. Friday in the Williamsburg neighborhood. He said the robbers gave him $60 so he could get back to Manhattan; instead, he quickly waved down a police car.

The truck was found abandoned, its contents still locked in metal air freight containers, at about 5:30 a.m. in nearby Greenpoint, police said.

Representatives for Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx Corp. said no packages were missing.

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