ATM Thief Rams Convenience Store with Pickup Truck
Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 | Updated 1:44 PM CST
Enrique Gonzalez
Watch as thieves drive a pickup truck into a suburban Chicago convenience store to steal an ATM machine. Lucky Mart owner Chan Park said the store did not own the machine and he didn't know how much money was inside of it.
A man smashed his pickup truck through the front of a convenience store early Tuesday and made off with an ATM machine in the Ashburn neighborhood.
At 2:30 a.m., a pickup truck plowed into the door and front window of Lucky Mart, 2900 W. 87th St., and someone stole the ATM with an undisclosed amount of money inside, police said.
Police were notified when a burglar alarm went off and when a witness called them to report the incident. That witness, who said he or she did not want to be "involved," followed the brown pickup truck after the robbery, police said.
No one was hurt as the store was closed at the time, and cameras captured pictures of the robbery. WBBM posted a surveillance photo from the robbery here.
“My whole window pane was broken and the shelves were messed up,’’ said Lucky Mart owner Chan Park. He said the store does not own the machine and he did not know how much money was inside of it.
Park said he didn’t think anything else was taken. Lucky Mart got its name because they sold a $28 million Lotto ticket in 2001.
Wentworth Area detectives are investigating, but no arrests had been made as of 5:15 a.m.
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Posted Thursday, Jul 30, 2009 - 1:44 PM CST
