Vixen Collection and other nearby businesses have resorted to boarding up their doors and windows, the outlet said. We were broken into the same time last year.”

“It’s the second time we’ve been broken into. Police say that the ambitious robbers used a truck and a heavy chain to yank the ATM away from the exterior. I believe,” Alysson Holt, who works at the Vixen Collection boutique in the Magnolia neighborhood, told KOMO News. “The glass on our front door was smashed on Monday night, Tuesday morning, around 3 or 4 a.m. The early morning robbery attempt also comes as Seattle businesses struggle to keep up with the area’s crime wave – with many slamming pushes to “defund” the city’s dwindling police force. The would-be thieves sped off in a red Ford pickup truck after apparently failing to access the money machine’s safe, which remained unopened, the outlet said.Īs of Friday afternoon, the criminals remain on the run. Photos from the scene show the chain and the ATM abandoned in the parking lot. Police say that the ambitious robbers used a truck and a heavy chain to yank the ATM away from the exterior of the bank on Washington Federal Bank in the Rainier Avenue area early Friday morning, KIRO 7 reported. Seattle woman vanishes after leaving MLB gameīrazen thieves ripped an entire ATM from a Seattle bank, shocking photos show – as business owners fed up with repeated break-ins in the Emerald City say that defunding the police has “failed miserably.”

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