SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 2, 2024 (Gephardt Daily) — A federal grand jury in Salt Lake City returned an indictment today, Wednesday, charging residents from Texas and Louisiana after they allegedly robbed $200,000 from an ATM while it was being serviced by an ATM technician.
Charged in the case are Calvin Brantley, 29, Jevaunte Reese, 32, Lashawn Charleswell, 31, and Keaira Woods, 26, all from Houston, Texas, and Tiras Jack, 44, and Harold Oliver, 37, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. They allegedly robbed a Mountain America Credit Union ATM in Taylorsville, Utah.
“As alleged in the complaint, on Sept. 11, 2024, Taylorsville Police Department and special agents from the FBI responded to a duress alarm at the Mountain America Credit Union,” says a news release issued by the Department of Justice, District of Utah.
“Upon arrival, law enforcement spoke to an ATM technician who was present during the robbery. The technician is contracted through a company that repairs ATM machines and has access to the cash stored inside. During the service call, multiple males pushed the ATM technician down and one told him to ‘stay down.’ The technician saw the men take the boxes out of the ATM which contained $200,000 in cash, and run and take off in a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee that was parked nearby.
“During the investigation, police identified a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Colorado license plate and a white Jeep Grand Cherokee with a Florida license plate. Both license plates belonged to rental car companies that had license plates removed from rental vehicles and stolen. Using a GPS tracker on one of the license plates, law enforcement identified the location of one of the white Jeep Grand Cherokees at a rest stop in Paragonah, Utah, and took six people into custody. Additionally, $195,691 was recovered from inside the vehicle.”
Brantley, Oliver, Reese, Charleswell, Jack, and Woods are charged with credit union robbery. Brantley, Oliver, Reese and Charleswell are scheduled for their initial appearance on the indictment on Monday, Oct. 7, before a U.S. Magistrate Judge at the Orrin G. Hatch United States District Courthouse in downtown Salt Lake City. Jack and Woods are scheduled for their initial appearance the following day.
U.S. Attorney Trina A. Higgins for the District of Utah made the announcement. The case is being investigated by the Taylorsville Police Department and the FBI Salt Lake City Field Office. Assistant United States Attorney Carlos A. Esqueda of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Utah is prosecuting the case.
