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Damaged ATM, stolen meat, Mad Dog lead to man’s arrest
Over the space of 30 minutes Saturday morning, June 12, a 35-year-old man apparently took out an ATM with a baseball-sized rock; shop-lifted several packages of meat and a jug of Mad Dog 20/20 — orange-flavored — and was stopped rolling a stainless steel CO2 tank away from a restaurant.
In two of the alleged criminal enterprises, Dayton police have video evidence.
The first piece of evidence was the video from the ATM at the Universal One Credit Union at 2933 Harshman. Police were called around 11 a.m. after bank personnel were told their ATM in the shopping center parking lot was busted. The machine’s screen was shattered and laying beside the broken machine was the above-described rock.
While the screen may have been busted, the machine’s camera was not. Reviewing the tape, a man — later identified as Brian Horst of Riverside — rides up to the ATM at 5:30 a.m. on his white bike. First, he opens his wallet. Then he is seen yelling at the machine, talking to the machine then pressing his face up to the machine numerous times.
Unable, perhaps, to communicate with the ATM, the man is last seen walking away from the it, making a pitching motion with his arm, then finally riding off on his bike.
Horst is next seen by police around 6 a.m. pushing the above-described stainless-steel tank down Interpoint Boulevard. That officer was able to follow a trail of packages of meat and the above-described booze Horst was dropping while rolling the tank.
The officer questioned Horst as to why he may have stolen the tank. Horst responded he didn’t steal a thing. It was just laying there — wherever there was — as if it were trash, and he was simply rolling it closer to a trash can.
The officer handcuffed Horst and asked another officer for assistance. That officer quickly ascertained the meat and the Mad Dog had come from a nearby Kroger. A review of the store security tape clearly showed Horst slipping the Mad Dog under his shirt. Horst would later claim someone had purchased the meat and Mad Dog for him with food stamps. It should be noted one cannot by alcohol with food stamps.
He was taken to the county lockup and booked.
When the officer who handled the ATM complaint returned to the station later in the day, she was informed that her suspect was now in the county jail for his later alleged misdeeds.
Horst was to be arraigned Monday afternoon on misdemeanor petty theft and criminal trespassing.
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