Gun-toting carjackers made off with an 18-wheel FedEx delivery truck after accosting the driver at a stoplight in Manhattan early Friday, police said.

Police say the truck was stopped at a traffic light at 47th Street and Eleventh Avenue when two men pulled guns on the driver and forced him out of the truck. The driver was put in another car and driven around for awhile. He was found around 1:30 this morning in Brooklyn.

The driver wasn’t hurt, police and FedEx Corp. spokesman Steve Barber said.

The FedEx Express truck was headed to a company facility in Newark, N.J. While the driver, who has worked with FedEx for 25 years was stopped at a traffic light on the far western side of midtown Manhattan, two men confronted him, brandishing a gun, according to police.

The truck was carrying more than $1 million of cargo, including holiday gifts. Police do not consider the driver of the truck to be a suspect.

source: cbs

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