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Indiana trucker reports being accosted by gunman

BIG BEAVER, Pa. — State police in Beaver County said an Indiana trucker has reported being accosted by a gunman who posed like a motorist needing assistance.

Police say the trucker, 44-year-old Paul Michael Brant, of Fort Wayne, told them he was flagged down on Route 18 in Big Beaver about 3:30 a.m. Thursday.

When the trucker got out to help, the man pulled a gun and ordered the trucker back in his rig to drive, police said. They said the gunman ordered the trucker out of the truck after a while and told him to run away into some woods where the trucker apparently got lost.

Police say the trucker told them he heard someone trying to drive the truck away, but he found his rig abandoned only a short distance from where he left it when he ran into the woods.