The Baltimore Sun, July 8, 2020: Crews of ‘professional’ thieves using trucks as battering rams to steal ATMs from inside Baltimore businesses
Sometimes, they operate with the speed and precision of a NASCAR pit crew — prying open the locked steel gates and doors of small businesses around Baltimore, then lifting away ATMs and hurrying them to a waiting pickup truck or van.
Other times, the thieves use vehicles — typically stolen — as battering rams to force entry. They crash through storefronts to commit a small bank robbery that does not require holding up a teller.
The chaotic crimes have continued on and off for months, with small businesses and one ATM distributor saying it’s a new and alarming trend. During the course of one hour as the sun came up June 27, three stores were hit in west, northeast and midtown Baltimore, including someone ramming into a gas station on Moravia Road.
