OAKLAND — Eight men were arrested as suspects in a Tuesday morning armed robbery of tobacco products worth at least $10,000 from a delivery man, police said.
The stolen products and two guns were recovered, police said.
The robbery happened about 6:45 a.m. Tuesday outside a liquor store in the 7900 block of Mountain Boulevard.
Two vehicles pulled up alongside a delivery truck and numerous masked suspects, some armed, got out and took boxes of cigarettes and other items from the truck, authorities said.
The suspects then fled in the vehicles. The delivery man was not hurt.
During the course of the investigation, officers assigned to the Ceasefire Division connected the armed robbery to a series of tobacco-related thefts throughout the Bay Area, but have not yet specified what cities were involved.
Authorities believe the suspects would sell the stolen products to other stores.
Investigators working in collaboration with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) and the U.S. Marshals Service Task Force located and arrested the men, who range in age from 21 to 38, at two residences on 43rd Street in North Oakland by early evening Tuesday. Two of the suspects live at the residences, authorities said.
Officers recovered the stolen tobacco products along with two firearms and other evidence that police said links them to similar robberies.
The investigation is continuing. Police are asking possible victims or anyone with information to call the robbery unit at 510-238-3326.
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