Pizza delivery has become a dangerous job

Pizza delivery drivers face more job hazards these days than crashing their cars or burning their hands on a hot pizza box. A couple of delivery drivers have been the targets of assaults and robberies lately.

Police are investigating one such incident that occurred shortly after midnight on Oct. 13 in the 20800 block of Truth Drive. According to police, a pizza delivery driver was making a delivery at a residence when he was hit from behind and dragged into the house. Inside, he was assaulted again by at least three suspects, who stole his money and his 2005 Chrysler minivan.

A patrol officer in the area spotted the vehicle and attempted to pull it over. The driver sped away with the officer in pursuit. The minivan eventually stopped on Lee Street in the Village of Ettrick, where the suspects jumped out of the vehicle and fled on foot. A search of the area ended with one juvenile female suspect taken into custody. Two juvenile male suspects, ages 16 and 17, were later arrested without incident. They were taken into custody at separate locations in the county and charged with assault and robbery of the 53-year-old victim.

The delivery driver was transported to VCU Medical Center, where he was treated for injuries that were not life-threatening.

The house on Truth Drive where the assault and robbery occurred was a vacant residence.

A similar incident occurred a couple of days earlier when a Chanello’s driver tried to make a delivery at a residence in the 3300 block of Main Street at 7:10 p.m. on Oct. 11. Several suspects pulled him into the residence, assaulted him and stole his cash and other property, before running away.

Anyone with information about either robbery should contact the Chesterfield County Police Department at 748-1251 or Crime Solvers at 748-0660 or text the code tip699 with the tip and send to 274637 (CRIMES).

In other crimes:

East Hundred Road. At 2:19 p.m. on Oct. 7, someone reported that property had been stolen from a cell tower site in the 2400 block.

Enon Church Road. Sometime before 7 p.m. on Oct. 10, someone stole an air conditioning unit and copper piping from a home in the 800 block.

Greyhound Court. Before 1 p.m. on Oct. 9, someone broke into a unit at a rental storage facility in the 3800 block and stole copper.

Huguenot Road. At 10:54 p.m. on Oct. 7, two suspects, one of them armed, entered the 7-Eleven store in the 1900 block and stole cash, then fled on foot.

Hull Street Road. Sometime before 6 p.m. on Oct. 1, someone cut the lock on a storage shed at Murphy Mechanical in the 10600 block and stole property.

• At 7:30 a.m. on Oct. 11, someone exposed his genitals while inside the Papa John’s Pizza restaurant in the 13800 block.

Planet Road. At 11 p.m. on Oct. 4, a man was getting out of his vehicle in the 6400 block at Regency Lake Apartments when several armed suspects approached and demanded his property. The robbers stole cash, jewelry and electronics before walking away.

Ridgedale Parkway. Before 5 p.m. on Sept. 22, someone stole property from a cell tower site in the 5000 block.

River Road. Sometime before 1 a.m. on Oct. 7, someone cut a hole in a fence surrounding a cell tower site in the10500 block and stole property.

• Before 2 p.m. on Sept. 27, someone stole property from a cell tower site in the 11700 block. At about midnight on Oct. 1, someone reported that copper had been stolen from the same site.

Winter’s Prey Trail. Sometime before 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 6, someone pulled electrical wiring from a house under construction in the 6800 block and removed the contents of two HVAC units sitting outside a second house under construction in the same block.