As surveillance footage of an more and more well-liked violent road crime has surfaced from South Carolina, police are warning People of the disturbing development.
The crime is named “jugging,” a sort of theft during which criminals surveil banks and ATMs, looking ahead to victims who withdraw giant sums of cash. When these victims end their transactions, the “juggers” will normally comply with them to a secondary location, the place they are going to rob the victims, usually inside their automobiles.
“Jugging rhymes with mugging, it’s unfold from Texas to South Carolina,” Fox Information Senior Correspondent Steve Harrigan stated on “America Experiences” on Friday.
“Some police there weren’t even certain what the phrase meant till the crime began taking place in their very own districts. Regulation enforcement warns that it may very well be over in a flash.”
Within the footage, captured on April 26, a person may be seen struggling contained in the entrance passenger space of a purple truck, earlier than leaping out of that car and right into a silver SUV.
The SUV then speeds off, and it’s captured from totally different surveillance angles fleeing the car parking zone.
Cpl. Cecilio Reyes of the Mauldin, South Carolina, Police Division defined how the crime usually performs out.
“They’re scoping, and they’re going to watch you as you’re both coming in or going out of the financial institution, or watch you do ATM withdrawals, seeing how a lot you’re getting money clever,” Reyes stated.
Harrigan described a wave of jugging arrests in Texas, earlier than the observe started spreading to North and South Carolina.
“In a single place in South Carolina, a landscaping enterprise proprietor went in a financial institution unaware that he was being noticed, took out his weekly payroll, stopped at a fuel station for a soda, and two juggers – they normally work in groups – pulled up alongside his Chevy, broke via the window and made off with what his total payroll was, $6,000.”
Harrigan additionally reported that the Texas legislature is working to make jugging a particular felony, with harsher penalties than easy theft.
