OCALA, Fla. – Ocala Police are searching for whoever robbed a freight train this week. The crime sent the train’s conductor to the hospital. Now the railroad company is offering a reward for the robber’s capture.
People at the Ocala Laundromat where train tracks run underneath the Highway 200 overpass, couldn’t believe the crime that happened there early Tuesday morning. Like something out of the “Old West”, someone robbed the train.
Read the complete story at Television Station MyNews 13.
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