Po­lice of­fi­cers ar­rest­ed five men for Au­to­mat­ed Teller Ma­chine (ATM) tam­per­ing ear­li­er this week, fol­low­ing re­ports of sus­pi­cious ac­tiv­i­ty at a First Cit­i­zens’ Bank ATM in Port of Spain.

Ac­cord­ing to of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports, dur­ing a pa­trol in the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion Dis­trict on Wednes­day 25th March, 2020, of­fi­cers of the Port of Spain Crim­i­nal In­ves­ti­ga­tions De­part­ment and the Cen­tral Po­lice Sta­tion, re­ceived in­for­ma­tion of men seen tam­per­ing with an ATM ma­chine at First Cit­i­zens’ Bank (FCB) In­de­pen­dence Square.

The of­fi­cers re­port­ed­ly made sev­er­al checks at oth­er ATMs.

Po­lice say the in­tel­li­gence col­lect­ed led of­fi­cers to the West­ern Di­vi­sion in pur­suit of a sus­pi­cious ve­hi­cle and its oc­cu­pants. Up­on reach­ing FCB on the Diego Mar­tin Main Road, the of­fi­cers ob­served a ve­hi­cle parked on the road­way and not­ed that a male with a hat and jer­sey con­ceal­ing most of his face was tam­per­ing with an ATM ma­chine. The sus­pi­cious ve­hi­cle sped off. 

As­sis­tance came from the West­ern Di­vi­sion Spe­cial Pa­trol who in­ter­cept­ed the said ve­hi­cle with four oc­cu­pants along the Diego Mar­tin High­way.

A search of the ve­hi­cle re­vealed a cash count­ing ma­chine, card skim­mer, blank card and a quan­ti­ty of cash. 

The five sus­pects are from the West­ern Di­vi­sion.

En­quires con­tin­ue.