Two men were robbed of a ve­hi­cle and $12,060 in Erin af­ter ban­dits forced their ve­hi­cle to stop and held them up yes­ter­day morn­ing.

Short­ly af­ter 1 am, a 37-year-old bar­tender and his 36-year-old rel­a­tive were in a white Maz­da B2500 van on their way home along the Buenos Ayres Main Road.

As they were pass­ing the Buenos Ayres Gov­ern­ment Pri­ma­ry School, a car over­took their ve­hi­cle and stopped on the road­way block­ing their path and forc­ing them to stop.

When the bar­tender stopped, two oc­cu­pants wear­ing dark cloth­ing came out of the ve­hi­cle and an­nounced a hold-up. They or­dered the bar­tender and his rel­a­tive out of the ve­hi­cle. Fear­ing for their lives, they com­plied.

One of the men struck the bar­tender on his chest and or­dered him to emp­ty his pock­ets. The ban­dit stole $6,000 from him, which rep­re­sent­ed the sales from the bar.

His rel­a­tive was hit on his head and robbed of a cell­phone and $60. 

The sus­pects or­dered the men to the side of the road and then pushed them down a val­ley.

The ban­dits then es­caped with the vic­tims’ $45,000 van which con­tained an­oth­er $6,000. The vic­tims sub­se­quent­ly went to the Erin Po­lice Sta­tion and made a re­port.

—Sascha Wil­son