Thieves steal automated teller machine from OKC store

By Augie Frost

Published: October 9, 2008

For the second time in a month, thieves have broken into a store and stolen the automated teller machine, but this time they were wearing masks similar to the villain in the movie thriller “Scream.”

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Brad Hutchison, general manager of the Valero station on the southeast corner of Interstate 240 and Sooner Road, said two people kicked in the glass door of his store about 1 a.m. today and stole the ATM machine. The store was closed at the time.

Hutchison said surveillance video shows one person sprint toward the machine and throw a shoulder into it as if they were throwing a block in a football game. The machine came loose from the floor, allowing the thieves to carry the machine out.

The machine they stole is one of the newer, smaller machines, Hutchison said. Police told him the thieves would not have been able to steal the machine if it were like the larger ones typically found at banks.

On Sept. 11, thieves broke into the Q Mart store, about five miles southwest of the Valero, at 14944 S Sunnylane Road, and pulled off a similar heist. Police told Hutchison the two crimes may be related and that they are looking at the surveillance video.

Anyone with information about the crimes is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 235-7300.

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