Crime & Safety
3 Held in Attempted ATM Robbery at Chase Bank at Grossmont Center
The men allegedly yanked an ATM off its moorings outside a La Mesa bank, loaded it onto a flatbed tow truck and made a failed attempt to flee with the machine.
Police and federal agents Wednesday arrested three San Diego men who allegedly yanked an ATM off its moorings outside a La Mesa bank, loaded it onto a flatbed tow truck and made a failed attempt to flee with the machine.
The suspects, whose names were not immediately available, were taken into custody about 2:30 a.m. near the Grossmont Center Drive Chase Bank branch office where the theft occurred a short time earlier, according to the FBI.
The arrestees were booked into the Metropolitan Correction Center in downtown San Diego.
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Federal investigators were looking into whether the trio might be linked to any other ATM thefts in the area, FBI public-affairs Special Agent Darrell Foxworth said.
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