Cedarburg bank ATM robbery, police seek suspects who fled scene

Bank ATM robbery suspects sought

Cedarburg police are looking for suspects in a bank ATM robbery that happened on Tuesday afternoon.

CEDARBURG, Wis. - Cedarburg police are looking for suspects in a bank ATM robbery that happened on Tuesday afternoon, May 20.

What we don't know:

Police said an ATM was being serviced at Port Washington State Bank around 1:25 p.m. As the money was being loaded into the machine, two suspects approached a worker and stole a bag of money that was going to be loaded into the ATM.

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The suspects fled the area down Portland Road. No gun was displayed, and the worker was not hurt.

Local perspective:

Michael Gannon owns Juice's Ghost Town. He said around 1:45 p.m. on Tuesday, law enforcement swarmed his business, looking for people wanted for a bank robbery.

"They were all going back, searching around those buildings," he said. "They were jumping out with their long guns running down the tracks, both sides of the building."

Investigators say the car was ditched in Grafton shortly after.

Dig deeper:

Cameras tracked a second vehicle wanted in connection to the robbery to Lake Forest, Illinois. Police there tried to stop it, which started a chase that ended in a crash.

The people in the car ran off.

The City of Highland Park posted that the driver was arrested. Highland Park police said they were looking for the other people in the car, but despite drones and K-9s, no one else is in custody. 

It's not the first time the bank has been robbed. Back in December, a bank robber went inside and demanded money from a teller.

"As a robber, I’d think there are easier banks to rob," Gannon said. "I mean, it is right downtown Cedarburg, and it is a tourist area, so I don’t know why they picked that bank."

In that case, prosecutors charged 20-year-old Solomon Moburg.

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It’s an outcome people like Gannon hope to see repeated for Tuesday's heist. 

Now, Cedarburg waits to see how this story ends.

What's next:

Police won't say how much money was stolen from the ATM. The investigation is ongoing.