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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A Northeast Fresno nail salon is successful hunt of answers arsenic Fresno Police investigators hunt for a fishy pursuing the theft of an ATM.
A theft caught connected camera by the nail salon's surveillance video.
In it, a achromatic Chevy Tahoe tin beryllium seen arsenic it is backed consecutive done the solid storefront of Aqua Nails Bar connected North Willow and East Nees Avenues successful Fresno, close connected the Fresno-Clovis border.
After the shocking sight, the antheral constabulary accidental is the fishy tin beryllium seen tying thing to the ATM, past his car, arsenic helium drives distant dragging the ATM retired of the business.
"Obviously, the close tools and they knew what they were doing. They astir apt scoped it retired excessively before," said Luke Tran, nationalist accusation serviceman with Fresno Police.
Tran says the alarm astatine the concern sounded successful the melodramatic robbery, which caused the concern to telephone constabulary conscionable aft 3 a.m. Officers would get to find the shattered storefront and aggregate signs the ATM had headed east.
"After driving off, the officers tried to travel the way of debris and located it good into the metropolis of Clovis," Tran said.
Tran says they tracked the debris astatine slightest a fewer miles into Clovis, arsenic helium says the ATM was dragged the full way. However, adjacent with the literal way of clues near behind, determination is nary fishy successful custody and for now, they person gotten distant with a large sum of cash.
"There was a minimum of $10,000 successful the instrumentality based connected the victim's statement," helium said.
After the ATM theft, the concern has been near to prime up the pieces. A institution was called successful conscionable hours aboriginal to hole the model and doorway frames, arsenic plywood sits wherever the windows erstwhile did.
Fresno Police accidental they present purpose to get postulation cam video and immoderate further surveillance to assistance portion the lawsuit together, arsenic they besides warned different businesses with an ATM.
"If they spot that ATM instrumentality done a model and there's nary obstruction done the windows, it's going to marque it precise tempting for them to bargain it because it's an casual target," Tran said.
Tran says that adjacent though determination is nary fishy successful custody yet, FPD is hopeful they'll get a clearer representation of who's liable soon.
If anyone knows thing astir this case, oregon the idiosyncratic responsible, telephone the Fresno Police Department astatine 559-621-7000.
