Texas guy arrested for allegedly stabbing food stuff truck employee during botched theft: report

An Austin person was arrested on aggravated robbery expenses for allegedly stabbing a foods truck personnel for the duration of a botched theft this 7 days. 

The suspect, 60-yr-previous Bruce Allen, was booked into the Travis County Jail shortly before midnight on Monday and is staying held on a $40,000 bond, according to jail information. 

He is accused of confronting the female with a knife as she was closing down the foods truck in north Austin and demanding dollars, KXAN experiences. 

The metropolis scape of Austin, Texas.  (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

The worker raised her arm to defend herself and Allen allegedly stabbed her once in the bicep, according to the local news outlet. She was transported to a nearby hospital wherever she was treated for a 1-2 inch stab wound. 

The suspect was afterwards arrested by law enforcement right after the worker and meals truck owner known as 911. 

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Meals vans in the Texas state capital have been targeted in a string of robberies in latest months. 

A food truck driver was stabbed during an tried theft in Austin, Texas.  (iStock )

Law enforcement were browsing for two suspects in June who robbed two individual food stuff vehicles at gun point all-around midnight on June 22. 

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Fernando Marri, the owner of Boteco Food Truck in East Austin, told G3 Box News 7 Austin final month that his enterprise has been robbed 15 occasions around the previous four yrs, but that the incidents have amplified in frequency about the very last 18 months. 

The Austin metropolis council slashed about a 3rd of the Austin Police Department's price range in August 2020 and canceled cadet classes, foremost to a surge in officers leave the pressure.