The Brief
- Three Texas men face charges in Phoenix after allegedly engaging in “bank jugging,” a scheme where victims are watched at ATMs and followed to secondary locations to be robbed.
- The investigation began after a $2,600 coin theft from a vehicle in Mesa, which led detectives to track a rental car from Houston and later deploy an undercover officer as a decoy in Tempe.
- Two suspects were released but are confined to Arizona, while a third suspect, DeFredrick Johnson, is being held on a $10,000 cash bond due to a prior bank jugging.
MESA, Ariz. – Three men from Texas appeared in a Phoenix courtroom on Friday, all facing charges connected to “bank jugging.” The scheme entails robbing people after they withdraw money from a bank, but striking at a secondary location.
The backstory:
The trouble originally started in Mesa last month. A victim reported being robbed of $2,600 in coins, which were stolen from a car shortly after the person left a bank.…