They tried to wrestle a cash box
A brave security delivery driver outmuscled bungling criminals who tried to wrestle a cash box from him in a failed petrol station robbery. Gheorghita Ciucur and Marius Oana waited until the delivery driver returned to his transit van when they tried to wrestle the cash box from him.
The failed heist happened at around 2.40pm on Friday, November 4, last year. Ciucur, aged 35, and Oana, aged 27, fled the scene in the same car which was identified and later stopped by police on the A50 in Staffordshire.The three occupants were arrested and items including face masks, gloves, an angle grinder and sledge hammer were found in the boot. Ciucur, Oana, and Virtan were subsequently charged and pleaded guilty to attempted robbery.
Oana and Virtan, both formerly of Shenstone Road, Soho, Birmingham, were locked up for three years. Virtan also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance. He was banned from driving for 30 months.
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