Los Angeles police are in search of two males who stole an ATM in broad daylight downtown on Thursday.
A safety digital camera recorded the theft, which occurred close to MariGold Clothes on Olympic Boulevard and Santee Avenue, based on KTLA.
“A white SUV operated by a masked particular person and a subsequent masked passenger pulled the automobile onto a sidewalk in entrance of a enterprise and stole an ATM machine in broad daylight about an hour in the past,” the LAPD stated in a social media publish.
Zoila Barrales, the store proprietor, instructed KTLA that prospects watched as the boys backed their automobile onto the sidewalk subsequent to the shop.
“We had prospects. There was a household right here with a bit lady,” she stated. “My workers instructed them, ‘Go inside.’ So that they put all the shoppers that had been right here inside becoming rooms since you simply by no means know.”
Video of the incident confirmed a person wearing all black with a black face masks enter the shop after the SUV backs into it, then reenter the automobile and go away moments later.
Given the current wave of vandalism that hit downtown from protests and ongoing immigration raids, the incident has frayed nerves much more, Barrales stated.
“With all that’s happening, actually this simply provides a bit bit extra to the worry that folks have proper now,” she instructed KTLA.
Detectives are in search of any proof to assist determine the suspects.
“Anybody with cellphone video or surveillance video is requested to name Central Division Theft Detectives,” the division’s social media publish stated.
