Police are looking for two men accused of robbing an Uber driver and his passengers at gunpoint in Linden early this morning.
This morning at approximately 3:07 a.m. a UBER driver - a 33-year-old Newark man - flagged down a passing patrol car and told police that he and his three female passengers were robbed at gunpoint.
The victim told officers that he had been called to a house on the 1100 block of E. Blancke St. to pick up a fare. When he arrived in the area, he saw a woman sitting on the porch of a house and believed that she was the fare.
At this point, two men emerged from a driveway and approached the vehicle and ordered the driver out of the car. Both men displayed handguns. They were described as dark-skinned, one of whom was wearing Adidas sweat pants, and the other wore gloves and a white ski mask.
The driver turned over his cell phone to one gunman while the other stuck his head into the car and demanded the purses of the three passengers.
The three women, a 29-year-old from the Bronx, N.Y., a 21-year-old from Guttenberg, and a 20-year-old from East Orange, turned over their purses which contained cell phones, cash, and credit cards.
The men then fled on foot headed south on E. Baltimore Avenue.
A search of the area failed to locate any suspects.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Detective Bureau at 908-474-8537.