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SALT LAKE CITY — Six people arrested and accused of stealing $200,000 from an ATM under repair in Taylorsville are now facing federal charges.
Jevaunte Reese, 32, Calvin Brantley, 29, Lashawn Charleswell, 31, and Keaira Nicole Woods, 26, all from Houston, Texas; and Harold Oliver, 37, Tiras Jackson, 42, both from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, were each indicted in federal court on Wednesday with robbing a credit union.
On Sept. 11, just before 9:30 a.m., several men wearing hoodies and masks got out of a Jeep Cherokee at Mountain America Credit Union, 5471 S. 4015 West, pushed down a person repairing an ATM at the business and told him to "stay down," according to charging documents. The men then took "the boxes out of the ATM which contained $200,000 in cash," the U.S. attorney for Utah stated.
As investigators worked the case, they learned that two license plates from Jeep Cherokees were stolen from local rental car companies.
"Using a GPS tracker on one of the license plates, law enforcement identified the location of one of the white Jeep Grand Cherokee(s) at a rest stop in Paragonah," according to prosecutors.
With the assistance of the Department of Public Safety helicopter, police located that vehicle at the rest stop and searched it. More than $195,000 was recovered from inside the vehicle, and all six were arrested.
Charging documents do not say whether the group knew the ATM would be having repair work done or if they happened to come across it by chance.
