Chief Hyatt Says Baltimore County Detectives Are Working With Other Jurisdictions To Solve Attempted ATM Thefts

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — WJZ spoke with Baltimore County Police Chief Melissa Hyatt to find retired what the region is doing to halt the recent rash of attempted ATM thefts.

Hyatt said her detectives are moving with detectives successful different counties to marque arrests successful these attempted ATM thefts.

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She told america the complaint of these crimes has been going down.

A 7-Eleven successful the 9400 artifact of Harford Road is the latest victim of the ongoing attempted ATM thefts successful Baltimore County and Baltimore City.

Police said it happened astir 4:30 a.m. Tuesday.

“That’s honestly thing that you would deliberation of successful movies,” said Kayla Saunders of Baltimore County. “Somebody driving done a store for an ATM.”

Blocks away, determination was different attempted ATM theft astatine a Walgreens connected October 9th. Police said 5 suspects drove a van into the store.

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“One of the things we’ve really seen is though determination is simply a batch of absorption connected these incidents, the thefts person really dropped by much than 50 percent this period compared to past month,” Hyatt said.

There has been a 27% driblet successful these crimes compared to past year, she added.

WJZ asked her what her section is doing to forestall them from happening astatine all.

“Right now, we’re successful the process of moving a vacation deployment, which truly focuses connected a batch of these commercialized establishments,” Hyatt said. “I genuinely deliberation that immoderate of the declines we’ve seen this period is due to the fact that immoderate of our patrol officers are very, precise hyper focused. They proceed to behaviour these patrols.”

Community members are hoping an extremity to these crimes comes soon.

“It doesn’t interest maine successful presumption of my ain idiosyncratic safety, but it worries maine successful presumption of nine and wherever we are and however the satellite is changing,” Neil Kehl said.

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Hyatt besides said her officers volition proceed to absorption connected preventing each crimes astatine each businesses arsenic we caput into the engaged vacation buying season.

Jessica Albert