Three explosions at ATM machines in the Tampa area since November appear to be linked, authorities say, and a blast on Sunday resulted in cash being stolen.
Chronister said the incident appeared to be connected to two previous ATM explosions — one at a Pilot Bank in Tampa in December and another at a BB&T Bank in Oldsmar, a Tampa suburb, in November.
The thief couldn't gain access to the machines' internal safes, and no money was taken in those incidents, the sheriff's office said last month. "Now that he's finally accessed some cash, that's certainly what I'm afraid of," Chronister told reporters, ."How sophisticated, how experienced is this individual, and where does he go from here? We need to get this individual to make sure there's no more threat to public safety."Before two of the explosions, a person spray-painted bank surveillance cameras black — a tactic that could be connected to three earlier incidents of ATM"tampering," the sheriff's office said later Monday.
One spray-paint incident occurred at a J.P. Morgan Chase branch in Tampa in December. The same Regions Bank that was targeted Sunday was tagged twice before — once in July and again in September.There were no explosions and no money was taken during the vandalism incidents, which the sheriff's office also described as"criminal mischief."
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