CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police are investigating several crash-and-grab ATM thefts at gas stations Wednesday morning.
At one incident, a clerk said thieves smashed into an Englewood gas station and stole an ATM.
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The incident occurred at a gas station in the 7000-block of South Ashland Avenue.
The clerk said an SUV crashed into the gas station and suspects stole one of the two ATMs inside.
The clerk said the suspects abandoned the SUV and took off in a waiting vehicle. The clerk said he was not injured.
“I was going into the back, I heard a ‘boom,'” The clerk said. “This happened before, but only drunk driving, they had hit it before. That is what I am thinking it is. When I see the guy go back and hit it again., he hit it like four or five times. When he hit it that fifth time, he knocked all of that out. The guys got out so calm. You could see that they knew what they were doing.”
Chicago police said the thieves left in a waiting vehicle.
In the Avondale neighborhood, Chicago police responded at about 2:50 a.m. to a burglary at a gas station in the 3300-block of North Kimball Avenue.
A witness told police that a dark-colored SUV drove into the front of the gas station and three male suspects got out and stole an ATM before fleeing. No injuries were reported.
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