California suspects attempt to steal bank ATM using a forklift, video shows

Police in California are looking Wednesday for 2 suspects seen on surveillance video attempting to make use of a forklift to steal a financial institution’s drive-thru ATM.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace says it’s providing a reward of as much as $1,000 for data resulting in the arrest of these behind the incident at a Secure Credit score Union on Watt Avenue in North Sacramento on Aug. 2.

Footage launched by police begins with an unidentified particular person driving a forklift into one of many lanes for the financial institution’s drive-thru ATM.  Because the forklift strikes off digicam, a white pickup truck is seen backing up into the world.

A forklift operator is seen driving right into a financial institution ATM at a Secure Credit score Union in North Sacramento on Aug. 2. (Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace Workplace/Physique Cams+/TMX)

The forklift driver then re-emerges and is seen crashing into the ATM, knocking it over on its aspect.

Earlier than the video ends, the forklift operator impales the ATM – inflicting sparks to fly – whereas attempting to maneuver it within the route of the ready truck

“After the suspect working the forklift knocked the ATM off of its platform, they finally loaded it within the mattress of the pickup truck,” the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace stated.

“The second suspect drove away with it; however in the course of the course of their ‘getaway,’ the ATM machine fell out of the truck in the course of Watt Avenue, inflicting an unrelated site visitors crash,” police added. “Each suspects fled the scene and have but to be recognized or positioned.”

The incident occurred simply days after a pair of males managed to flee police after they have been caught attempting to tear away a Financial institution of America ATM with their pickup truck in Hingham, Massachusetts.

The 2 males had fixed a sequence onto the drive-up ATM on July 28 and have been making an attempt to tear it away, police stated.

The collision knocked the North Sacramento financial institution ATM over. (Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace Workplace/Physique Cams+/TMX)

When police arrived, the lads shortly vacated the premises and jumped into their white 2007 Cadillac Escalade EXT.

Officers shortly tried to pursue the pickup truck, however the suspects managed to evade arrest after ditching the automobile.

Police stated that no cash was stolen from that Financial institution of America ATM, nonetheless the machine was severely broken from the tried theft.

Weeks earlier, a brazen trio additionally was caught on video ripping an ATM out of a Philadelphia grocery retailer utilizing a stolen U-Haul truck, authorities stated.

The suspects backed the stolen U-Haul field truck to the entrance doorways of the shop and hooked a sequence to the ATM within the retailer’s vestibule, based on police.

Sparks are seen flying because the forklift impales the ATM as it’s mendacity on the bottom outdoors the Secure Credit score Union in northern California. (Sacramento County Sheriff’s Workplace Workplace/Physique Cams+/TMX)

The truck and ATM later have been recovered, but it surely’s unclear how a lot money was stolen.