North Rhine-Westphalia: Suspected tank crackers after a chase in custody

Kierspe (dpa / lnw) - After the approximately 40-kilometer-long spectacular chase, an arrest warrant was issued against the three suspected ATM blasters from Kierspe.

North Rhine-Westphalia: Suspected tank crackers after a chase in custody

Kierspe (dpa / lnw) - After the approximately 40-kilometer-long spectacular chase, an arrest warrant was issued against the three suspected ATM blasters from Kierspe. A five-digit sum of cash was secured from them, the public prosecutor's office and the police in Hagen and Dortmund announced on Thursday. A judge remanded the trio for causing a bomb explosion and aggravated gang theft.

On the night of Wednesday, police officers in Sauerland attached themselves to the high-powered car of the fleeing suspects. Finally, she was able to arrest three men from the Netherlands between the ages of 23 and 24 in a wooded area in Odenthal in the Rheinisch-Bergisch district.

The building with the ATM of a Volksbank was badly damaged, and debris also hit the house opposite. Nobody got hurt. The police started a large-scale manhunt, around 2.25 a.m. the car was sighted near Wermelskirchen. During the pursuit, the inmates blinded their pursuers with a laser pointer, the police reported.

The men, who were probably unfamiliar with the area, finally drove into a dead end street and climbed there on foot. The crew of a police helicopter kept an eye on them. "The police officers involved did a lot right last night," praised NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU).