A brazen ATM theft in Fairhope, Alabama, left residents shocked. Police are investigating after a free-standing ATM was ripped from its pedestal at a Citizens Bank branch early Tuesday morning. Surveillance footage is limited, but a white pickup truck with a chain and grappling hook was seen speeding away from the scene.
In a brazen theft Tuesday morning, December 17, 2024 at a Fairhope bank, someone broke into an ATM machine just before daylight. Fairhope Police responded to an alarm and found the free-standing ATM jerked from its pedestal at the bank’s drive through. Fairhope Police got the alarm call just before 6:00 a.m. and responded to Citizens Bank on Plantation Dr. When officers arrived, investigators said they found the bank’s ATM out of place and damaged severely with its contents stolen.
Police secured the scene and called in the FBI to lead the investigation. Law enforcement officials investigate after an ATM was found knocked over at a Citizens Bank branch in Fairhope Tuesday morning, Dec. 17, 2024.Just a couple blocks away, a white pickup truck, still running with a chain and grappling hook attached was blocked off with police tape, waiting to be towed. Little information and no surveillance video have been officially released at this point. All the police activity caught morning commuters by surprise. “Dropped my kids off just two blocks down the road. It’s a quick, easy couple blocks in here and they had the road blocked off with police up there and I figured there may be something going on down the street, so I came around and another block off here and then I realized maybe something a little bit major was going on,” said Dr. Jennifer Purcell. Purcell owns Eastern Shore Pet Hospital across the street and just down from Citizens Bank. When she checked her security camera footage, she found video of what she believes to be the truck or other vehicle involved speeding in front of her business at 5:57 a.m. The video isn’t clear, and it was still too dark for a positive identification when the vehicle drives b
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