WILD video shows thieves stealing ATM from CA credit union using a forklift

If only criminals would apply the same industriousness toward making an honest living that they employ toward heists…

A band of ambitious thieves in Sacramento, Calif., used a forklift to snatch a bank ATM and while they managed to break the money machine from its foundation AND get it loaded into the back of a pickup truck, the efforts eventually proved to be for naught.

The ATM was stolen from the back of a SAFE Credit Union last week and a surveillance camera captured the pickup making a clean getaway. However, the driver lost his valuable load at some point, leaving the ATM sitting in the middle of a busy road which led to another vehicle crashing into the machine, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Police released the video, which shows a suspect using the forklift to ram the machine and then scoop it up and drop it into the white pickup.

“At approximately 6:15 AM on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, two suspects orchestrated the theft of an ATM machine from the Safe Credit Union on Watt Avenue in North Sacramento,” said the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office in a statement shared online. “While one individual operated a forklift, the other drove a white pickup truck. After the suspect operating the forklift knocked the ATM off of its platform, they eventually loaded it in the bed of the pickup truck.”

“The second suspect drove away with it; but during the course of their ‘getaway,’ the ATM machine fell out of the truck in the middle of Watt Avenue, causing an unrelated traffic crash,” the release continued.

The Sheriff’s office said both suspects fled the scene and have yet to be identified or located.

Here’s another angle of the aftermath of the great caper turned hapless endeavor:

Tom Tillison

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