‘It’s A Product Of The Times Really, People Are Getting More & More Desperate’: 2 Attempted ATM Thefts Reported Friday

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — City constabulary are investigating 2 brazen attempts to bargain an ATM. It’s each portion of a caller drawstring of akin crimes each implicit the metropolis and county.

“Early successful the greeting around, 3:28 a.m., I was driving connected Eastern Avenue,” said 1 resident. “I saw the van conscionable blasting done the model similar the beforehand doorway of the Walgreens.”

One man, who wishes to stay anonymous, says helium saw thieves driving into a Walgreens disconnected Eastern Avenue past Monday and taking the ATM.

“I saw 3 guys coming out. Straight done the beforehand door,” helium said.

It’s conscionable 1 successful a drawstring of ATM robberies, immoderate successful, immoderate are not.

“Nothing was stolen, convey God,” said Thomas Meyer.

Thomas Meyer works astatine the Marathon Gas Station successful East Baltimore and called constabulary Friday aft noticing the ATM had been tampered with.

Overnight, suspects tried to instrumentality it but successful the end, near the instrumentality behind.

They were trying to bust it retired with a pry barroom and realized there’s this existent similar large portion successful there,” Meyer explained.

In a abstracted incidental Friday, suspects tried to instrumentality an ATM from a liquor store disconnected Harford Road.

Police judge they recovered the achromatic Ford van utilized successful this attempted robbery on with a abstracted ATM inside, but the suspects got away.

“It’s a merchandise of the times really,” said Rick. “People are getting much and much desperate.”

City constabulary accidental galore of the vehicles utilized successful these robberies are stolen making it harder to drawback the suspect, but acknowledgment to an inaugural created past twelvemonth focused connected preventing robberies, ATM thefts person dropped.

“We were capable to alteration 58 percent this year. We person 29 versus past twelvemonth we person 70 for the full year,” said Commissioner Michael Harrison.

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Police accidental they are reviewing surveillance video but the attendant said the camera lone films the store and not the customers.