COBB COUNTY, Ga. — Surveillance video shows thieves using a U-Haul for a smash and grab, crashing through the front of two stores.
They struck stores in Mableton on Veterans Memorial Highway, Channel 2 Cobb County Bureau Chief Michele Newell learned.
The thieves tried to steal two ATMs. A Family Dollar was their first stop, but they couldn’t get to the ATM because that wall came crashing down on it after they rammed through the store.
“I’m shocked, I never seen this happen in this area before,” said shopper Gisell Rayes.
At a laundromat, two people dressed in all black wearing ski masks could be seen on surveillance as they carried out the ATM and took off.
The owner said the laundromat puts food on his family’s table, but they expect it will be closed for a while.
“(There’s) damage to my business. This is the big damage, I don’t know yet. We already talked to our insurance company and they’re probably going to send their adjustor,” said the owner, Kishor Changela. “And then we’ll know; probably big damage because this whole glass and everything up there to they need to fix.”
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