SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Two men are being sought by San Diego Police in the attempted theft of an ATM in Scripps Ranch.
Police received a call from a security alarm company at around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday regarding two men using a welding torch in an attempt to break into an ATM at a strip mall at 9970 Scripps Ranch Blvd.
When officers arrived, the men had left the scene and may have drove off in a tan pickup truck.
The two men left behind a damaged and scorched ATM but were unable to fully open the machine.
Officers searched the immediate area, but the would-be thieves were nowhere to be found.