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Urbana police investigate armed robbery of cab driver

Sun, 08/07/2011 - 5:56pm | Tim Mitchell, staff writer, News-Gazette.com

URBANA — Police are investigating the armed robbery of a cab driver Friday afternoon in Urbana.

According to a police report, a 49-year-old Urbana man was driving a cab and picking up a customer in the 700 block of North Mathews Avenue at 1:32 p.m. Friday to take him to an address in Champaign.

The passenger pulled out a gun, took cash and keys from the cab driver and ran away.

The description of the robber was incomplete.

The cab driver was not injured, according to police.

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IU1977 wrote on August 07, 2011 at 6:08 pm

So the party line here is that the cab driver,who had the fare in his cab,who was flagged down by his fare has NO CLUE as to what the guy looks like? Really?

Dean wrote on August 07, 2011 at 9:08 pm

Yeah, there seems to be a lot of that going around these days. I'm sick to death of if really.

mikeyy wrote on August 07, 2011 at 10:08 pm

I had lunch at McDonald's today for lunch,, I couldn't tell you what me sever looked like,,,, no point

bremax wrote on August 08, 2011 at 10:08 am

Your McDonalds server is the robber!

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