Two delivery trucks have been robbed in St Catherine in a week, checks by THE STAR have revealed.

The latest robbery occurred last Saturday and involved a delivery truck belonging to the National Baking Company Ltd.

According to police reports, shortly after 4 p.m., the driver of the truck and his sideman were in Monza, Portmore. The two were reportedly making a delivery when two armed men approached and relieved them of $180,000.

Further reports are that the robbers then ordered the driver and his assistant to transport them to the Bernard Lodge canefield nearby, where they escaped on foot.

The police were then alerted.

This incident comes only a few days after a truck belonging to Jamaica Broilers was held up and a vault, which was inside, stolen.

In the first incident, the driver of the truck was on his way to the company's processing plant when a car with six men aboard overtook the truck and stopped, blocking the path of the vehicle.

Two armed men then entered the truck and ordered the driver to take the truck to a section of Spanish Town in the parish.

The driver, however, reportedly crashed the truck, escaped and alerted the police, who, upon their arrival, discovered that the truck's vault, which contained an undetermined sum of cash, was removed.

The cash was said to be the day's sale.