A Montgomery County jury found Ricky Garcia guilty of Attempted Theft of an ATM (<$300,000) following a three-day trial in the 359th District Court, with the Honorable Judge Kathleen Hamilton presiding. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Merit Marshall of the Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office.
The jury heard evidence that, in the early morning hours of April 28, 2023, Garcia and co-defendant Lazaro Martinez attempted to break into a Bank of America ATM on College Park Drive in The Woodlands. Surveillance footage presented at trial showed the two men using power tools to cut through the machine’s steel casing and pry open its reinforced doors.
As deputies from the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene, Martinez was apprehended near the ATM, while Garcia fled into a nearby wooded area. K9 Deputy Mark Cendejas deployed his two-year-old Dutch Shepherd, Chico, who successfully tracked Garcia into the brush where he was located and taken into custody…