A Clewiston man was found guilty in the theft of an ATM machine torn from the wall of the Highlands Independent Bank branch using an excavator machine stolen from the Walgreens construction site on New Year's Eve in 2006 - 2007. ...more

August 7, 2008

Clewiston man was found guilty in the theft of an ATM machine torn from the wall of the Highlands Independent Bank branch using an excavator machine stolen from the Walgreens construction site on New Years Eve in 2006 – 2007. ...more

August 6, 2008

SEBRING — It must have sounded like a good idea at the time, busting open ATMs with a bulldozer, but Jesus A. Sanchez got caught. And last week, Judge Anthony Ritenour found Sanchez guilty of burglary. He pleaded guilty to the grand theft of the ATM, the excavator, and the money inside the ATM, and was sentenced to five years in prison on the first count, and six years on the second. Sanchez did catch a couple of breaks: the second sentence can be served concurrently with the first, meaning he'll have to spend only six years behind bars. He was also sentenced to six years probation on the third and fourth counts. ...more

June 21, 2008

Thomas Paul Ludlum, 42, of Lake Placid, entered a guilty plea Wednesday afternoon in the Highlands County Courthouse to counts of first-degree grand theft and the burglary of a structure for his 2006 New Year's Eve theft of a Highlands Independent Bank ATM. ...more

October 11, 2007