Police arrest gang responsible for cash-machine thefts

Police have arrested members of a gang believed to be responsible for around 70 million crowns worth of thefts from cash-machines across the country. Six people were arrested in total, with one member of the gang believed to be still at large. The members are aged between 30 and 37, with co-operation from police in Prague, Brno, Olomouc, Mladá Boleslav and several other regions resulting in the arrests. According to police, the thieves simly drove up to cash machines stationed in shopping centres and simply ripped them out of the wall, then driving off with the machines on the back seats of their cars. 39 such bank machine thefts are attributed to the gang.