Jan 5, 2009 7:02 pm US/Eastern
ATM Stolen From Miami Bait & Tackle Shop
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Miami police dust for fingerprints after an ATM was stolen from a bait and tackle store.
CBS
Eddy Prospero lives just three blocks away from his store, Twin Dixie Bait and Tackle so when the alarm company called him at 2:30 a.m. Monday he said he arrived in just 2 minutes still wearing his pajamas.
But as
CBS4's Liv Davalos reports, he was too late to catch the crooks who made off with the ATM machine inside.
"They took a chain pulled the doors, then used the chains to take the ATM machine it took just three minutes."
Lazaro Garcia who co-owns the store says in the 22 years of being in business along the 79th Street Causeway and Northeast 10th Court, the store has never been robbed.
"They dragged it out and stole it. We've been seeing more of this kind of thing in the neighborhood it is a sign of the times."
In fact, it seems stealing ATM machines might be gaining popularity.
Just two weeks in Davie, two men tried to steal an ATM machine from a Wachovia Bank's drive thru lane, but before they could put it on the back of a nearby tow truck, cops caught the crooks in the act.
Two days before the Davie incident some would be thieves in North Miami tried to make off with an ATM machine at a Washington Mutual bank. They eventually gave up, leaving the backhoe they were planning on using to carry the ATM, behind. That wasn't the case in Kendall a few years ago, when thieves got away with thousands of dollars, driving away with the ATM. Surveillance cameras also caught crooks at a Bank of America lifting an ATM and tossing into a stolen dump truck.
As for the owners of this latest ATM heist, they say this will be the first and last ATM machine they will have in their store.
"I didn't want an ATM machine I knew something like this would happen," said Prospero.
If you know anything about this case you're asked to call Miami-Dade Crimestoppers at (305) 471-TIPS
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