A Hamilton trio have been arrested after scaling a mall roof armed with an angle grinder and crowbars to break into an ATM.
A
security guard noticed the group of men with t-shirts tied across their
faces climb onto the Glenview Shopping Centre roof early on Wednesday
and crawl towards the money machine area armed with "various tools".
Realising
they had been spotted, the men jumped down into the mall and smashed
their way out the entrance brandishing their crowbars at the guard, who
ran to safety in his car, police shift manager Senior Sergeant Gill
Meadows said.
The alarm was raised, however, and it wasn't long
before the trio were caught driving 200 metres along a footpath in a
stolen car driven by a woman, she said.
Two men were arrested at
the scene while the other two suspects were chased by a police dog
handler through several backyards before being caught.
The four,
aged 22 to 33, will face Hamilton District Court on Wednesday charged
with burglary, aggravated assault and unlawfully taking a motor vehicle.
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