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Instead, they’re simply relying on crowbars, chains and stolen cars to snatch the doors off the money machines — sometimes in front of witnesses in broad daylight — to the amazement of embarrassed cops who still can’t catch them.
They then position stolen cars in the area to thwart responding officers as they make their getaway.
Each theft has netted the gang between $1,300 and nearly $12,000, sources told The Post.
The group has struck dozens of times in bodegas, laundromats, pizzerias and gas stations in every borough but Staten Island — prompting NYPD brass to chastise detectives in a recent CompStat meeting for failing to nail them, the sources said.
Last week, the crew even robbed an ATM at 9th Avenue and West 36th Street in Manhattan — right around the corner from the Midtown South police station.
[. . .]
“Before, they were prying open the machines with hand tools,” the source said. “But now, they’re using chains and just taking the boxes, and they’re even going into places that are open with witnesses and carrying the ATM out the front door.”
http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/cops-cant-catch-gang-thats-stolen-73-atms/
Cops can‘t catch gang that’s stolen 73 ATMs
By Dana Sauchelli, Priscilla DeGregory and Leonard Greene
February 22, 2015 | 11:09pm
[From article]
Instead, they’re simply relying on crowbars, chains and stolen cars to snatch the doors off the money machines — sometimes in front of witnesses in broad daylight — to the amazement of embarrassed cops who still can’t catch them.
They then position stolen cars in the area to thwart responding officers as they make their getaway.
Each theft has netted the gang between $1,300 and nearly $12,000, sources told The Post.
The group has struck dozens of times in bodegas, laundromats, pizzerias and gas stations in every borough but Staten Island — prompting NYPD brass to chastise detectives in a recent CompStat meeting for failing to nail them, the sources said.
Last week, the crew even robbed an ATM at 9th Avenue and West 36th Street in Manhattan — right around the corner from the Midtown South police station.
[. . .]
“Before, they were prying open the machines with hand tools,” the source said. “But now, they’re using chains and just taking the boxes, and they’re even going into places that are open with witnesses and carrying the ATM out the front door.”
http://nypost.com/2015/02/22/cops-cant-catch-gang-thats-stolen-73-atms/
Cops can‘t catch gang that’s stolen 73 ATMs
By Dana Sauchelli, Priscilla DeGregory and Leonard Greene
February 22, 2015 | 11:09pm
