2 years for man who tried, but failed to burglarize ATM containing at least $100,000

CHICAGO — A South Aspect man acquired a two-year sentence for his unsuccessful try to interrupt into an ATM that held at the least $100,000 in money.

Rodney Westerfield, 32, pleaded responsible to legal injury to property and acquired the sentence from Choose Natasha Toller. Prosecutors dropped probably the most severe cost he confronted, tried theft of $100,000 to $500,000.

In the course of the in a single day hours of August 23, 2023, Chicago police responded to a name about two males slicing on an ATM at Financial institution of America, 250 West 83rd Avenue. After they arrived, they noticed Westerfield operating from the scene.

The cops chased after him and watched as he tossed three massive objects into some grass moments earlier than they caught him, the report stated. These objects have been a grinder, two crowbars, and a black and white ski masks.

The police report famous that Westerfield was sporting white latex gloves when the cops arrested him.

Again on the financial institution, police discovered the safety door pried open on a drive-up ATM, which exhibited “extreme injury,” the report continued.

An officer wrote that they “decided there to be in extra of $100,000 [United States currency] within the ATM.”

Westerfield was on digital monitoring from August 25 till he pleaded responsible on August 9. By legislation, daily he spent on an ankle monitor counted towards his jail sentence. Consequently, he solely spent three nights within the Stateville Correctional Heart earlier than being launched.

In keeping with state information, he has two earlier felony convictions that resulted in jail time, each of which have been gun circumstances from 2020.