WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (WNYT)- Two men from New York City were arrested after the Williamstown Police Department says they were trying to break into an ATM.<\/p>\n
Related: Pittsfield Police continue to search for gunman in Thursday\u2019s deadly shooting<\/a><\/p>\n Police say Manuel Antonio Moguea-Gutierrez, 23, from Brooklyn and Roberto Flores Zabaleta, 20, from New York were attempting to break into the ATM at Community Bank, 273 Main Street, using a technique called \u201cjackpotting\u201d on Saturday, June 20.<\/p>\n Moguea-Gutierrez and Zabaleta were found by police with digital equipment and tools allegedly used to access and modify ATMs in order to steal money.<\/p>\n Both men were charged with:<\/p>\n Breaking into a depositoryPossession of burglar toolsUnauthorized access to a computer systemDestruction of property, value over $1,200<\/p>\n \u201cThese arrests indicate how regional, multi-state and even international criminal activity can impact our community,\u201d Williamstown Police Chief Michael Ziemba said. \u201cThe persons arrested this weekend appear to be part of a larger criminal organization that perpetrates financial crimes on a wide scale.\u201d<\/p>\n Police say they worked with bank security in order to apprehend Moguea-Gutierrez and Zabaleta. Chief Ziemba said, Williamstown police will continue to investigate with the help of state and federal agencies.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0Williamstown Police Department<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Theft<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Roberto Flores Zabaleta<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0New York<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Massachusetts<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Manuel Antonio Moguea-Gutierrez<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Jackpotting<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Brooklyn<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0ATM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. (WNYT)- Two men from New York City were arrested after the Williamstown Police Department says they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[106293,98,106292,75,84,83,106291,11539,9,24,63,106290,797,106289],"class_list":["post-276489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-atm","tag-brooklyn","tag-jackpotting","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manuel-antonio-moguea-gutierrez","tag-massachusetts","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-roberto-flores-zabaleta","tag-theft","tag-williamstown-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}