AN off-duty security officer was robbed of $15,000 in cash when he boarded a taxi in Arouca yesterday.

And Arouca police are currently investigating the possible role a bank teller may have played in planning the robbery.

Reports are 27-year-old MTS security officer Emrie Stewart was a passenger in a taxi on his way home when he was robbed of his bag.

In that bag Stewart had $15,000 cash he intended to use to purchase a car.

Stewart had taken a loan from his credit union and received a manager’s cheque for the money.

And he went to the Trincity Mall branch of a commercial bank to cash the cheque.

This was done and Stewart received the $15,000 in cash which he hid in his bag.

He then travelled to Five Rivers Junction to get a car to reach to his Victory Heights home. But this is when the unthinkable happened.

While Stewart was in the taxi another passenger flagged down the car a little further along the way, before grabbing Stewart’s bag and running toward a waiting car.

And this is what has the police puzzled. Officers are investigating whether Stewart’s robbery was an inside job because only Stewart and his bag were targeted.

This robbery comes on the heels of other robberies in recent months where persons who just left the commercial bank with large amounts of money.