ATM Stolen In Elkridge Smash And Grab; Stolen Van Used Was Found In Baltimore, Police Say

ELKRIDGE, Md. (WJZ) — The latest successful a monthlong drawstring of ATM robberies was astatine a state presumption successful Howard County overnight.

Surveillance video caught the brazen theft, successful which the suspects smashed a van into the Exxon storefront astir 3 a.m. Wednesday and took disconnected with the ATM filled with cash.

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“This each happens successful astir a minute,” Howard County Police spokesperson Seth Hoffman said. “Its evident from the surveillance video that this is not the archetypal rodeo for these people. They don’t permission tracks behind, they screen their faces, deterioration gloves.

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Police recovered the van allegedly utilized successful the robbery successful Baltimore City, and they determined it was stolen, which makes it harder for constabulary to place the suspects.

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Howard County Police said it is moving with Baltimore City Police and Baltimore County Police to get the radical of thieves down bars earlier it happens again.

Apurva Patel, the proprietor of the state station, told WJZ it feels similar thing similar this ever happens to the hardest moving radical similar himself and his family.

“You enactment your down disconnected each twelvemonth circular effort to prevention immoderate wealth Christmas clip comes and this happens,” Patel said.

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He enactment up a impermanent partition and had a caller ATM brought into the store conscionable hours aft the smash and grab. Now, it sits successful the backmost corner.

Annie Rose Ramos