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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — People were stunned erstwhile they saw the gaping spread successful the Walgreens connected York Road and Walker Avenue successful North Baltimore.
Baltimore City Police said 4 radical were wrong a achromatic van that smashed done the beforehand of the store conscionable earlier 4 a.m. Thursday. Police said the suspects took an ATM wrong and sped off.
SMASH AND GRAB ATM THEFT: Police are searching for the radical down it. The beforehand of the York Road Walgreens successful North Baltimore smashed in. The latest astatine noon connected #WJZ and CBSNBaltimore. @wjz pic.twitter.com/KnzLa49hv7
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) November 4, 2021
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They near tyre tracks successful the writer and connected the sidewalk starring onto York Road.
“It looked similar idiosyncratic took a dynamite instrumentality and blew the full beforehand of the store off,” Tanya Brown, a predominant customer, told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren. “How tin you spell to antithetic locations and support doing the aforesaid happening and get distant with it?”
A fewer hours later, investigators recovered a damaged Ford van successful Southwest Baltimore. Police said that the van contained grounds that leads them to judge it was utilized successful an ATM theft. They are moving to corroborate if it was the aforesaid van utilized to interruption into the Walgreens.
FROM CHOPPER 13🚁: Police recovered this van successful SW Baltimore this afternoon. They accidental it contains grounds that leads detectives to judge it was utilized successful an ATM theft. This is conscionable hours aft a achromatic van smashed done a Walgreens connected York Road and stole the ATM. @wjz pic.twitter.com/G7T5mAbav2
— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) November 4, 2021
“People request wealth by immoderate means indispensable I guess,” said predominant Walgreens lawsuit Sandra Breit. “The full beforehand entranceway is gone. The doorway is smashed in. It’s awful.”
There person been much than a dozen thefts similar this successful the Baltimore country successful caller months including respective successful Baltimore County. A bulk person been successful Baltimore City.
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“They’re similar slope robberies. They bash it successful jurisdiction aft jurisdiction. It’s astir each of america moving together, and we’re going to beryllium doing that. I cognize we’re going to find these people,” Mayor Brandon Scott said. He noted that Baltimore constabulary are moving with different section constabulary departments and national instrumentality enforcement to drawback the suspects.
Baltimore constabulary told WJZ galore of the vehicles utilized successful these thefts are stolen and that has been challenging for detectives successful trying to seizure suspects undeterred by surveillance cameras. They are unsure if these cases are portion of an organized ring.
“We were capable to person a alteration of 58%. This twelvemonth we had 29 versus 70 for the full of past year,” BPD Commissioner Michael
Harrison told WJZ.
The commissioner said helium has started an inaugural to halt these ATM thefts. That includes a detective successful each territory moving exclusively connected specified cases.
“Nothing truly surprises maine lately. I think
people are desperate. These are hopeless times,“ Walgreens lawsuit Susan Hurd told Hellgren.
Commissioner Harrison said they are processing surveillance video from the scene.
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