{"id":334408,"date":"2026-09-01T02:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334408\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T02:00:16","slug":"men-plead-guilty-to-attempted-bank-thefts-in-manhattan-wamego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/334408\/","title":{"rendered":"Men plead guilty to attempted bank thefts in Manhattan, Wamego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/gavel.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Five men pleaded guilty to attempting to steal money from ATMs in Kansas through \u201cjackpotting.\u201d\" alt=\"Five men pleaded guilty to attempting to steal money from ATMs in Kansas through \u201cjackpotting.\u201d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Five men pleaded guilty to attempting to steal money from ATMs in Kansas through \u201cjackpotting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            File photo<\/p>\n<p>Five men have pleaded guilty to attempting to steal money from ATMs in Kansas through \u201cjackpotting,\u201d according to the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>Five men  pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank larceny: 27-year-old Luis Velasquez-Artigas, 29-year-old Royder Figuera-Perez, 27-year-old Javier Mejia Jr., 22-year-old Alexjandro Corales-Garcia and 26-year-old Italo Corrales-Carrillo, according to a news release from Danielle Thomas, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news release, the men traveled from Indiana to Kansas in December 2025, where they attempted to steal cash from ATMs in Wamego and Manhattan through \u201cjackpotting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jackpotting, Thomas said, \u201cinvolves installing malware into an ATM to force it to dispense sizable amounts of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group planned for one of the men to \u201cphysically install the malware into the ATMS\u201d before the group would remotely activate and dispense money from the machine, Thomas said.<\/p>\n<p>The men did not successfully install the malware in Wamego or Manhattan, Thomas said. They were captured on nearby surveillance cameras.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news release, jackpotting incidents are increasing across the country. A report released from the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February listed 1,900 nation-wide jackpotting incidents since 2020, 700 of which occurred in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe FBI will continue to identify and expose these schemes, work closely with our private-sector and law enforcement partners to strengthen defense and pursue those responsible,\u201d said Chris Ormerod, special agent in charge for FBI Kansas City.<\/p>\n<p>Velasquez-Artigas was sentenced to nine months in prison for his role in the scheme, Thomas said. The other men have yet to be sentenced.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/profile\/287999470\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/caroline zimmerman 2.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Caroline Zimmerman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/profile\/287999470\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Caroline Zimmerman<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Kansas City Star<\/p>\n<p>            Caroline Zimmerman is the breaking news night reporter for The Star. She is a Kansas City, Kansas, native and a 2024 graduate of the University of Kansas. She has previously written for the Argus Leader in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five men pleaded guilty to attempting to steal money from ATMs in Kansas through \u201cjackpotting.\u201d File photo Five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-334408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334408","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=334408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}