A gaggle of thieves stays at giant, terrorizing small companies throughout the Inland Empire with damaging ATM heists.
Victims say the suspects seem like the identical group of thieves utilizing the identical pickup truck to hold out the damaging burglaries.
The suspects are believed to be accountable for focusing on a number of companies in Colton, San Bernardino, Loma Linda and extra.
Enterprise house owners are hoping the thieves are caught quickly to stop them from devastating one other small enterprise once more.
A latest heist of Royal Tattoo in Perris on Sunday evening was captured by safety cameras.
With the entrance door broad open and alarms blaring, a suspect is seen tying an ATM machine to the again of a truck parked outdoors.
After securing the tie, a second suspect, the truck driver, is seen rapidly rushing away, violently yanking the ATM machine to the bottom and out the door.
The picture is an all-too-familiar scene, to the victims. They are saying the heists at all times contain two male suspects and a white pickup truck yanking the ATM machine.
“One taller man crowbars the heck out of it, busts by the window, jumps in, will get some huge heavy-duty straps, hoists it round our atm,” stated Lana Mack, the final supervisor of Papa Joe’s Sports activities Bar.
Safety video captures the thieves focusing on a Moreno Valley sports activities bar round 4 a.m. on Monday morning.
After smashing by the entrance window, a thief scurries inside and rapidly straps a rope onto a nook ATM machine. Because the getaway truck makes an attempt to hurry off with the ATM, the maneuver is thwarted by the wall beneath the window, sending tons of particles flying into the air.
Ultimately, the 2 suspects raise and roll the machine out the window earlier than loading it onto their truck mattress.
“The truth that it was completed fairly rapidly, you possibly can see that they had some follow and all of us just about agreed on that,” stated Mack.
Mack says not solely was the clean-up afterward fairly the ordeal, however the enterprise can also be now in need of 1000’s of {dollars}.
Anthony Romo, proprietor of UpperCuts Barbershop in Loma Linda, stated the thieves had focused his enterprise twice within the final two weeks.
“They slammed on the window a few occasions,” stated Romo. “It’s a double-paned window. You’re not going to have any success. So the subsequent try, they got here in and used a crowbar and pried the door open and this time they have been profitable.”
Little did the thieves know, the barbershop didn’t have an ATM machine inside.
“After they ran in, they realized I don’t have an atm machine,” stated Romo. “I’ve a sweet machine that resembles an ATM. In order that they took their straps, wrapped them up after which ran out the door.”
The break-in nonetheless left Romo with round $1,000 in damages.
Victims stated the suspect’s car is an older white pickup truck with noticeable chipping on the paint. They’re hoping somebody can establish the burglars quickly to allow them to’t strike one other small enterprise once more.
“I’m right here to make a superb residing for my daughter and for them to do that and goal us once more as a second try, you don’t be ok with it,” stated Romo.
