A Russian “sumo wrestler” has stolen a cash machine containing 25,320 rubles ($848) from a convenience store in northern Moscow, police said.
The man “uprooted an ATM in complete silence” and carried the 90-kilogram machine out of the store on his shoulders, the police said in a statement Friday.
He and an accomplice fled in a BMW sedan with blacked-out windows and no license plate. They were stopped and arrested minutes later.
(Bloomberg)
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