WESTPORT, Conn. (WTNH) -- Westport Police Department detectives are searching for a firearm that was reportedly discarded after an alleged armed robbery of an armored truck carrying cash outside of a bank on Thursday afternoon.

According to police, at around 12:33 p.m. on Thursday, it was reported that two suspects dressed in all black and masks accosted an armored car driver after he took a cash deposit from a Wells Fargo Bank located at 422 Post Road East.

The victim reported that one of the suspects pointed what he described as a revolver-style weapon at him while the other took him to the ground to take his bank bag, firearm, keys, phone and scanner.

Witnesses leaving the bank saw what was happening and began calling for help, which reportedly scared the suspects and caused them to

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