THREE men who sparked a UK wide search after a spate of robberies at ATM machines in Scotland have been caged for more than a year each.
Felix Stoica, 19, Forin Geblescu, 18, and Piper Dumitri 18, targeted machines all over the country and stole cash from people including an 84-year-old pensioner.
In total they pocketed £1,100 but were eventually caught when police south of the border recognised them from a robbery in Wirral, Merseyside.
They are all serving time in a young offenders’ institute as a result of committing a similar crime.
At Glasgow Sheriff Court the teenagers all admitted a charge of assault and robbery at an HSBC bank on Argyle Street Glasgow by pushing Lorraine Woodrow and stealing £200 on April 1, last year.
Stoica plead guilty to a further four charges of theft, Geblescu and Dumitri to another three charges of stealing cash on April 21 and 22 at various Scottish bank machines.
On Friday sheriff Daniel Scullion detained each of the teenagers for 14 months reduced from 21 months for their crimes.
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article