SACRAMENTO — The incidents fit a familiar pattern, with a reconnaissance team surveilling automated teller machines, followed by one or two burglars who would come back and make it rain cash.
The crew was prolific, hitting targets around California’s Central Valley but also as far away as Washington state and Nebraska. Now that two suspects have been indicted, prosecutors identified incidents across five states where more than $200,000 was stolen and other failed attempts were made.
In an indictment filed last month, Joel Morantes Leal and Endis Gonzalez Ortega were charged with conspiracy and hacking or attempting to hack ATMs. The indictment alleges the two worked with other unnamed people to attach “foreign devices” to ATMs that make them dispense cash like crazy…