Video shows robbers drop into check cashing store from ceiling in $150,000 heist
Atlanta police on Tuesday continued to search for two robbers captured on video dropping into a check cashing store from the ceiling and grabbing stacks of cash from a safe.
Atlanta police on Tuesday continued to search for two robbers captured on video dropping into a check cashing store from the ceiling and grabbing stacks of cash from a safe.
Police believe the pair, working with the help of a suspected lookout, cut into the roof of the one-story store with power tools before the drop-in captured on security video took place, according to an incident report about the Sept. 3 crime.
On Monday, the Atlanta Police Department, working with the nonprofit Crime Stoppers Greater Atlanta, distributed images of the two robbers to seek the public's help identifying them, Officer A. Fix said by email. The images appear to be taken from the security video.
The department also released some of that morning's video, captured from inside the store as its ceiling was breached and including the robbers' exit. The strip mall-based location in southwest Atlanta is fortified with bank teller-style security barriers intended to thwart robberies.
A robber falls through the ceiling of a check cashing business in southwest Atlanta on Sept. 3.Atlanta Police Dept.According to the security video and the police report, the first of two people who ended up inside the store dropped in about 8:17 a.m., not long after it opened. Manager Teyoka Glenn was inside and appeared to be startled, according to the report and the video.
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