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Man caught on CCTV arrested after cash till raid |
A man has been arrested by police probing the theft of a cash machine in a
ram-raid at a NatWest bank in Kent.
A mechanical digger was used in the robbery at Borough Green in the early hours
of Saturday. It was the sixth similar raid in Kent in three months.
Kent Police said on Sunday that one man was in custody and it was not yet known
how much was stolen in the raid.
The latest robbery happened a day after police offered an "unprecedented"
£10,000 reward for information.
Digger abandoned
The theft took place at about 0230 GMT in Borough Green High Street.
After being ripped from the wall, the cash machine was loaded into a car and
driven away. The digger was abandoned.
Officers were investigating whether it was linked to five other raids in Maidstone
and Gillingham.
In at least one of the five previous high-value raids a digger was used and
the robbery was recorded on CCTV.
The Halifax in Maidstone was robbed on 18 December, three Gillingham banks were
ram-raided on 1 February, and cash machines at Sainsbury's in Northfleet were
targeted on 19 February.
The thieves drove the digger into the Lloyds and Woolwich banks in Gillingham
High Street and stole a cash machine.
It was also used to smash a window at HSBC and was captured on CCTV
camera.
Two men who were arrested over the early morning raids at Gillingham were released
on bail. From BBC News. |
