Suspects Captured In ATMTheft

FIRTH, Idaho - (02/28/05) -- Three men were arrested Friday nightand charged with the Feb. 16 theft of an ATM from Potelco CU. Twoof the suspects, Willie Bridges and Mosias Santos, were chargedwith one count of grand theft, while the third, Jacob Hanson, wascharged with one count of grand theft and one count of felonymalicious injury to property for the damage to the machine, whichwas found by authorities hours later in the nearby river. Policesaid they found the machine submerged in the Snake River stillholding about half the $18,000 that was in it at the time of thetheft.

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