Video reveals robbers drop into test cashing retailer from ceiling in $150,000 heist

Atlanta police on Tuesday continued to seek for two robbers captured on video dropping right into a test cashing retailer from the ceiling and grabbing stacks of money from a protected.

Police consider the pair, working with the assistance of a suspected lookout, lower into the roof of the one-story retailer with energy instruments earlier than the drop-in captured on safety video occurred, in accordance with an incident report on the Sept. 3 crime.

On Monday, the Atlanta Police Division, working with the nonprofit Crime Stoppers Higher Atlanta, distributed pictures of the 2 robbers to hunt the general public’s assist figuring out them, Officer A. Repair mentioned by electronic mail. The photographs seem like taken from the safety video.

The division additionally launched a few of that morning’s video, captured from inside the shop as its ceiling was breached and together with the robbers’ exit. The strip mall-based location in southwest Atlanta is fortified with financial institution teller-style safety limitations meant to thwart robberies.

In response to the safety video and the police report, the primary of two suspects who ended up inside the shop dropped in about 8:17 a.m., not lengthy after the shop opened. Supervisor Teyoka Glenn was inside and seemed to be startled, in accordance with the report and video.

There was development within the constructing, which prompted her to consider that noise the robbers made breaching the roof was regular, in accordance with the report. When the suspect dropped down, Glenn advised officers, she thought he could have been an injured employee, the report states.

However that first suspect grabbed her neck, guided her to the bottom and yelled at her to remain down, in accordance with the report. The second suspect dropped in and a 3rd, the alleged lookout, advised the primary through telephone {that a} buyer was coming into the shop, the report states.

They advised Glenn to get the particular person to go away, which she did, in accordance with the report. The 2 then had her information them to a big protected, the place video captures the pair peering inside.

The supervisor mentioned they used a pink and black duffle bag to move money they grabbed from that protected, in accordance with the report.

Glenn mentioned the 2 took her to a rest room, certain her with duct tape and looked for additional cash, in accordance with the report. It isn’t clear in the event that they discovered extra; the full haul was estimated at $150,000, the report states.

The 2 retrieved Glenn to ask for instructions on getting out, and he or she advised them a couple of backdoor, it states. They fled out that rear portal, and video captured a lady strolling by simply after the door was opened.

Police mentioned the doable third suspect is seen on separate safety video, captured by a tool within the metropolis’s Connect Atlanta community of police and volunteer cameras, carrying a cooler as he walked down Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.

The supervisor was unhurt, police mentioned.

In a 3:39 a.m. incident the identical day, safety video captured a person in a masks and hoodie burglarizing a enterprise after breaching it by the wall a WC he was capable of entry, in accordance with an Atlanta Police Division assertion.

The breach precipitated a water pipe to rupture, and an alarm sounded, police mentioned. The housebreaking netted clothes and purses, they mentioned.

Investigators have been processing fingerprints discovered on the scene, in accordance with the police assertion.

Requested if the 2 incidents may very well be associated, police spokesperson Repair mentioned by electronic mail, “As a result of each of these investigations stay energetic and ongoing, we have now no additional info that’s obtainable.”