Police are searching for five men who crashed a van into a state Department of Motor Vehicles office in East Point and stole two ATMs.
The early morning theft at 4125 Welcome All Road was captured on surveillance video by DMV cameras around 4:30 a.m., said East Point police spokesman Cliff Chandler. The alleged burglars were spotted fleeing in another van, which was found, set ablaze, nearly three hours later in northwest Atlanta on 120 Anderson Avenue.
A security guard working at the DMV office, feeling outnumbered, took cover and called 911 from the scene, said Josh Waites, office of special investigations for the state Department of Revenue. Waites said the burglars completed the theft within three minutes.
Georgia motorists will experience some repercussions from the break-in, as the East Point branch, the only DMV site where car titles can be processed, will be closed Thursday and possibly longer, Waites said. The office serves “hundreds” of customers a day, he said.
East Point police are currently searching the van left behind at the DMV for clues.
— Photographer David Tulis contributed to this report
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