Deliverymen robbed at gunpoint in New Castle County spree

NEWARK, Del. (WPVI) -- Several food delivery workers have been held up at gunpoint in New Castle County, Delaware and officials believe it's the same suspects each time.

There have been five cases in the last three weeks.

"I think it was a setup. I went there and they took money, they took my cellphone, and the pizza," Henry, a pizza deliveryman, said.

Henry was robbed at gunpoint Monday night. He delivered the food to a phoned in address at a trailer home park.

No one answered the door. As he turned to leave, he was surrounded by young males wearing bandanas.

He believes they were teenagers.

Henry is just one of five delivery drivers robbed at gunpoint in communities off Pulaski Highway Route 40 since October 29.

County police it is the same gang pulling the same crime - have the delivery person dispatched to a random location and then rob him.

"In one of the incidents, a subject was assaulted. I don't know the degree of injury," New Castle County Officer Tom Jackson said.

"It's horrible. We're trying to work and we're trying got get tips; it's messing up our jobs," pizza deliveryman Javonte Brown said.

Brown hasn't been robbed, but one of his coworkers had a gun put in his face during the same crime spree in the Bear/Newark area.

"Actually one of my coworkers got robbed two weeks ago at gunpoint. It forced him to quit his job. He was scared," Brown said.

New Castle County police are asking anyone with information to call them.