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Posted: Thursday 20 July, 2017 at 2:09 PM

Bandits attempt to break into St. Peter’s ATM

By: Stanford Conway, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – ONCE again, a bandit or bandits had targeted one of the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank’s Automated Teller Machines (ATM), but they had failed in their bid to extract any money from it.

     

    Information reaching SKNVibes states that either late Sunday night (Jul. 9) or early Monday morning (Jul. 10), an attempt was made to break into the vault of the bank’s ATM at Lower Monkey Hill in St. Peter’s.

    This was confirmed by a police source, who stated that officers had responded to a report of an attempted break-in at the ATM. The source also stated that while processing the scene, investigators found that the door to the booth of the machine was damaged but the perpetrator or perpetrators were unable to gain access to the vault.

    The source further stated that investigations are ongoing.

    This has been the sixth attempt over a seven-year period that bandits had targeted ATMs of the National Bank.

    On Sunday, October 17, 2010, thieves had broken into the booth of the bank’s ATM in the vicinity of C.A. Paul Southwell Industrial Site, just off the left shoulder of the Frigate Bay Road next to TDC’s Home and Building Depot.

    Two days later, the ATM in Tabernacle was also broken into. 
     
    Two more attempts were made on the one at C.A. Paul Southwell Industrial Site; one was on Wednesday, December 8, 2010 and the other on Wednesday, November 16, 2016.

    But like the previous attempts, the perpetrators were unable to penetrate the vault.

    However, the bank had suffered losses in Nevis when a portable ATM was stolen from the airport.

    According to information that reached this publication, sometime before 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, November 16, 2016, Manager of the Vance Amory International Airport in New Castle had realised that the ATM of the Nevis Branch of the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla National Bank Limited, which was positioned outside the Arrival Hall within a glass booth, was no longer there and he had assumed that the financial institution had removed it for maintenance purposes.

    He however contacted the bank later that day and was told that the entity did not remove it and the police were subsequently notified.

    On the following day, a police communiqué stated that initial investigations revealed that the portable machine was stolen and inquiries into the theft were ongoing.

    It also stated that money was in the machine but the amount was not disclosed.

    To date, the ATM has not been found and no one has since been held for the crime.

    In 2010, then Police Press and Public Relations Officer, Inspector Vaughan Henderson had told this media house that ATMs are extremely fortified.

    “ATMs are extremely fortified and it makes no sense for persons to break into them. These machines have built-in security features within the vaults, and even if they were to penetrate a vault they wouldn’t get very far without being detected.”






     
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