ATM robberies show need for self-protection in Ohio

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target="_blank">Dayton man charged with robbery at ATM - Nov. 24, 2004
A Dayton man is in the Montgomery County Jail charged with aggravated robbery
stemming from his arrest Monday night by Dayton police, who said he robbed a
Miamisburg man at a National City Bank ATM at 1501 Troy St. William B. Morris,
Jr., 33, was held Tuesday in lieu of $10,000 bail. Police said an armed robber
shattered the passenger-side window of the victim&aposs green Toyota and
demanded the $40 the victim was retrieving from the ATM. The victim told
police the robber ordered him to leave the area. As the victim circled the
parking lot in his car, he saw a man get into a minivan parked nearby. The van
headed north on Troy and the victim called police, who caught up with
Morris.

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target="_blank">Ashland (OH) ATM patron robbed at knifepoint - Nov. 23, 2004
A city man charged with robbing a patron at a local bank automatic teller
machine pleaded innocent Monday in Common Pleas Court to aggravated robbery. Omar K. Coleman, 27, of 1039 Arch St. waived a preliminary hearing and had his case bound over to a Dec. 14 grand jury. Coleman is accused of robbing a man
at knifepoint at the Huntington Bank branch on East Main Street and Eastern
Avenue and taking the victim's paycheck and a credit card Oct. 3. Police say
Coleman was wearing face paint at the time of the robbery.

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target="_blank">Bedford (OH) man escapes car trunk unharmed after robbery at ATM - Nov. 18, 2004
A 42-year-old Bedford man was robbed of at least $1,000 near an automatic
teller machine in Maple Heights and driven about in the trunk of his car before
escaping unharmed in Shaker Heights. According to police, the robbery of the
Bedford man occurred between 12:58 a.m. and 1:38 a.m. Nov. 4 at an Ohio Savings
Bank ATM at Southgate. The man was depositing money and talking on the phone
when three people approached him and demanded money, bearing weapons. One of
the robbers snatched money from the victim's hand and ordered him to empty his
pockets of money, too. The victim complied. According to police, two men and a girl got in the car, a Nissan Maxima, and ordered the victim to drive near a
Dumpster by a bingo hall at Southgate U.S.A. When they ordered him to give up
more money, he said he had none. So they put him in the trunk and began
driving. Maple Heights police had a bead on the robbers even before the man at
the ATM was put in the trunk. As he was being robbed he was talking with a
girlfriend on a cell phone call to Florida. Police caught the robbers and two
other accomplices in Bedford. At least four of the five people also tried to
rob a Shell station on Warrensville Center Road in Maple Heights about two
hours after dropping off the man's car in Shaker Heights.

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