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Innovative Robbers Chain Car to SoHo ATM and Yank It

By Heather Grossmann | April 7, 2010 11:22am | Updated on April 7, 2010 12:51pm

By Heather Grossmann

DNAinfo News Editor

SOHO — The NYPD is on the hunt for two men who busted open an ATM in SoHo by chaining their late-model Cadillac Sedan — tricked out with over-sized chrome rims — to the machine and ripping off its front cover last Wednesday.

Surveillance video shows the suspects trying to pry open the ATM with what looks like a crowbar, and then giving up on that idea and attaching a chain to the machine, which was then apparently attached to their sedan and used to cleave off the ATM’s cover.

The suspects took the cash and then fled in the vehicle.

Police described the first suspect as a 6-foot-tall black male weighing approximately 200 pounds. He was wearing a black coat, black sweatshirt, black pants and black shoes.

The second suspect was a 5-foot-10-inch, 250-pound 30-year-old black male wearing a black leather jacket, black pants, a baseball cap and a dark, hooded sweatshirt, police said.

Anyone with information in regards to this incident is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477).