{"id":99705,"date":"2025-12-24T14:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99705\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T14:25:08","slug":"atm-dragged-through-fort-worth-storefront-in-failed-christmas-eve-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/99705\/","title":{"rendered":"ATM dragged through Fort Worth storefront in failed Christmas Eve robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/g8719snxqaaiiwy.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Attempted ATM theft (Fort Worth police) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Police are asking for the public\u2019s help to identify two men who tried to steal an ATM on Christmas Eve by dragging it from a store with a metal cable.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The incident occurred around 3:45 a.m. in the 2600 block of S. Cherry St. Investigators say the suspects tied a metal cable to the machine and attached it to an SUV. While the suspects managed to pull the ATM through the store&#8217;s front glass doors, the machine became detached while they were driving away.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Officers later found the ATM abandoned on the Interstate 30 service road between S. Cherry Lane and Las Vegas Trail.<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/g8719sixgaaljgz.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Attempted ATM theft (Fort Worth police) <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Using license plate readers and surveillance technology, police located the getaway SUV less than a mile from the scene. Investigators determined the vehicle had been stolen from a Dallas apartment complex just an hour before the attempted theft.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Detectives believe the suspects abandoned the SUV and fled on foot or were picked up by another vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Local perspective:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Fort Worth investigators are now working with neighboring departments to determine if this is linked to similar convenience store thefts reported in surrounding cities over the last two weeks.<\/p>\n<p> Help police find ATM thief suspects <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/g8719sjxcaatydi.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">Attempted ATM theft (Fort Worth police) <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Both suspects are described as men wearing black hooded sweatshirts, black pants, face masks, and orange gloves. One suspect wore white sneakers, while the other wore black tennis shoes.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Detective Geovanny Ramirez at 817-246-7070, ext. 420. Anonymous tips can also be submitted to Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at 817-469-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from Fort Worth police.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/tarrant-county\/fort-worth\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Attempted ATM theft (Fort Worth police) FORT WORTH, Texas &#8211; Police are asking for the public\u2019s help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1046,116,118,117,223,122,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-99705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-tarrant-county","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}