According to police a taxi driver was not only robbed of his cab, but he was forced to disrobe and left in his underwear. The crime took place in the 4400 block of Washington early this morning.
The cab driver said that at 1:29 a.m. a man pointed a gun at him, took some money, made him strip to his boxer shorts and fled in the driver’s cab.
The victim is an employee of the St. Louis/Yellow Cab Company. The logs at the company show that the cab driver had picked up a fare in the 5800 block of Minerva Avenue in the city’s Hamilton Heights neighborhood.