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Scare for Amazon driver kidnapped in East Bay by pair who smashed into work van

Police said suspects forced driver to pull out money from bank in San Ramon

Rick Hurd, Breaking news/East Bay for the Bay Area News Group is photographed for a Wordpress profile in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Thursday, July 28, 2016. (Anda Chu/Bay Area News Group)
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SAN RAMON — An Amazon delivery driver came away unscathed physically after two people kidnapped him and forced the worker to drive to two banks and pull out money from ATMs, police said.

Officers responded to the kidnapping call on Saturday at about 4 p.m. They found the victim at the Bank of America in the 3100 block of Crow Canyon Road, according to a statement from San Ramon police Lt. Leysy Pelayo.

The driver, a man whose age wasn’t released, told officers that an SUV with a man driving and a woman as a passenger ran into the work van, Pelayo said. She added that the two in the SUV then forced the driver to go to a San Ramon bank and take money out of an ATM.

Pelayo said via email Monday afternoon that “it does not appear the suspects brandished any weapons nor did the victim see any weapons,” but she had no details regarding how the two forced the driver to go to the bank.

After the first bank, Pelayo said the two then forced the driver to go to a bank in Dublin. They were unable to get any more money from an ATM at that bank. Once that happened, the two fled, leaving the driver behind.

Police did not identify the suspects.