Man and his partner targeted four ATMs over three months in 2017.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says that on July 4, 2017, Engel and co-defendant Scott Petri planted a pipe bomb underneath an ATM at the California Coast Credit Union on Ruffin Road. The explosion damaged the machine, but the men were not able to access the money within.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters.
That, however, was not the entirety of their ATM crime spree. The U.S. Attorney's Office said the men also broke into a the Super Laundry laundromat in National City on June 18, 2017, and tried to break into an ATM. They were unsuccessful at getting into the machine but stole about $140 from the laundromat, according to prosecutors.
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