Luck Changes: Iowa Man Wins at Casino After Botching Theft of Bank ATMs

Iowa men initially had rearwards hazard when they failed inwards an attempt to yank an ATM machine come out of a bank paries using a chain committed to a stolen pickup truck truck, authorities said this week. But later that January day, their chance changed, when one of them impinge on a jackpot on a one-armed bandit political machine at Meskwaki Bingo Casino in Tama.

On Tuesday, their unfit fortune returned when authorities arrested the duo, Ryan Marek, 30, and Brandon Hufstedler, 36, both of James Neville Mason City, for the Jan. 5 burglaries, according to the Grundy Register, a local newspaper publisher inwards Iowa.

It was Marek who won at the gaming property. But casino faculty would not make up him because he could non produce an ID. He returned later with acceptable identification and self-contained the money.

Hours before, the partner off allegedly took component part inward burglaries or attempted burglaries inward Grundy County. It started with them stealing the urban center of Dike-owned truck, deputies said.

Attached Ernst Boris Chain to Bank ATM

The story sounds a bit the likes of a moving-picture show plot. The duo first-class honours degree used a pickup motortruck in an effort to draw an ATM come out of the third house fence at Fidelity Bank and Trust, deputies claim.

They had committed a chemical chain to the ATM and smash the gas. But that didn’t work, and all they did was happy chance the bank’s drinking glass door, the Register said. They also were unsuccessful at their similar effort to slip an ATM from Peoples Savings Bank inwards Dike, deputies said.

They also allegedly tried to roast downwardly an smash door at Easton Technical Products inward Dike by driving into it. That also failed. They and so tried to force surface a fixture door at the business, but that didn’t process either, deputies said.

At one point in time during the burglary spree, they allegedly stone-broke into a private residence inwards Dike. Later, they stone-broke into Reinbeck Memorial Marguerite Radclyffe Hall inward nearby Reinbeck, deputies said. They allegedly took a little amount of immediate payment and alcoholic drink from the hall.

Facing Numerous Charges

Now, both are supercharged with second-degree burglary, ternary counts of third-degree burglary, performance without owner’s consent, third-degree attempted burglary, second-degree outlaw mischief, and ownership of burglar tools, according to the Grundy County Sheriff’s Office. If convicted, both could face several years inwards prison.

Marek was apprehended inward Garner, Iowa, and supercharged for the burglary spree. He was existence held too soon this week. Julian Bond was band at $90,000. Hufstedler was already being held inwards the Cerro Gordo County Jail on unrelated charges. That’s where he was charged on the unexampled counts, KCRG, a local TV station, reported.

The stolen pickup truck later was found by deputies. It had been abandoned.

In an unrelated offense utmost April, a 43-year-old Orient Moline, Ill. man allegedly chased a woman within and outdoors of Davenport, Iowa’s Rhythm City Casino. Jeromy Philip Anderson was armed with an ax and a knife. Maxwell Anderson was charged with sledding armed with intent, carrying a weapon, topsy-turvy conduct, and domestic clapperclaw — assault with purport or weapon. It is not straight off known what happened to the courtroom case.