Feds: Ohio armored truck driver pleads guilty to taking cash meant for ATMs
Updated: 2:53 PM EDT Apr 29, 2024
NOW AT NOON. AUTHORITIES ARE ASKING FOR HELP SOLVING A DEADLY HIT AND RUN CRASH OVERNIGHT. WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE PEDESTRIAN WHO WAS KILLED. AND A RETRIAL HAS STARTED FOR A MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE AND THREE OF HER FAMILY MEMBERS. WHY? THE TRIAL OF THIS CASE IS DIFFERENT. A SECOND TIME AROUND, AND WE’LL GET TO ENJOY ANOTHER WARM AFTERNOON IN SKIES. STAY QUIET UNTIL TONIGHT. MY TIMELINE FOR MONDAY EVENING RAIN AND THUNDER AND HOW IT IMPACTS YOUR COMMUTE TOMORROW MORNING. THIS IS WLTX. NEWS FIVE LEADING THE WAY. ALL RIGHT, FIRST AT NOON. IT IS FEELING LIKE SUMMER TO START OUT THE WEEK. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M KELLY RIPPIN AND I’M STEVEN ALBRITTON. WE’RE LOOKING AT WARM TEMPERATURES AND SOME SHOWERS ON THE WAY, BUT THAT WAYS WAY OFF INTO THE EVENING. METEOROLOGIST KATIE DONOVAN JOINING US NOW. IT’S A GOOD DAY AT THE MOMENT. IT ABSOLUTELY IS. YEAH. AGAIN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE SUNSHINE, THE WARMER TEMPERATURES BECAUSE THAT RAIN’S COMING IN TONIGHT. SO THAT’S GOING TO IMPACT SOME LATE EVENING PLANS. SO WE’LL START TO SEE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS FOR PLACES IN THE WLWT VIEWING AREAS. WE HEAD TOWARDS 6:00 THIS EVENING. SO RIGHT NOW YOU’RE GOING TO SEE A NICE CLEAN SWEEP OF OUR RADAR. RAIN STILL WELL OFF TO THE WEST HERE. AND THAT IS AGAIN VERY, VERY SLOWLY HEADING OUR DIRECTION. IT’S BEEN TAKING PRETTY MUCH ALL MORNING TO MOVE ACROSS THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, AND IT’S NOW STARTING TO PUSH INTO INDIANA. SO YOU CAN SEE SOME SCATTERED SHOWERS AROUND TERRE HAUTE, LAFAYETTE, A LITTLE BIT MORE SIGNIFICANT RAIN BACK TO THE WEST AND AGAIN VERY SLOWLY GOING TO HEAD OUR DIRECTION. SO WE’RE GOING TO START TO GET IN ON SOME VERY LIGHT SHOWERS AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THIS EVENING, AND MAYBE EVEN A FEW RUMBLES OF THUNDER TEMPERATURES RIGHT NOW FOR YOUR LUNCH HOUR, JUST SHY OF 80 AT 74, IN COVINGTON. THAT’S OUR OFFICIAL CVG TEMPERATURE IS 78 IN KENWOOD, LOCHLANDS AT 78. WE HAVE ABOUT 79. AS YOU HEAD OUT TOWARDS LUNKEN AIRPORT AND THEN 77 UP IN WEST CHESTER. WIDER PICTURE IS GOING TO SHOW LOTS OF UPPER 70S, EVEN SOME LOWER 80S UP IN OXFORD. SO TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO WARM. I THINK WE REACHED RIGHT AROUND 80 TODAY. SO NICE WARM SUMMER AFTERNOON. VERY SUMMER LIKE TODAY AFTER SCHOOL TEMPERATURES RIGHT AROUND 80. VERY WARM. AND I THINK WE’RE STILL DRY. WE’LL SEE THE INCREASE IN CLOUDS AND THEN WE’RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT SOME SCATTERED RAIN BY THE EVENING. SO IF YOU HAVE ANY LATE EVENING SPORTS PRACTICES TONIGHT, GAMES WITH THE KIDS COULD POTENTIALLY BE IMPACTED. WE’RE GOING TO HAVE A TIMELINE IN YOUR FUTURE CAST COMING UP KELLY STEPHEN KATIE. THANK YOU. BREAKING NOW AT NOON OHIO STATE TROOPERS ARE ASKING FOR THE PUBLIC’S HELP SOLVING A DEADLY HIT AND RUN CRASH OVERNIGHT. THE CORONER IS STILL WORKING TO IDENTIFY THE PERSON WHO WAS KILLED IN THAT CRASH IN CLERMONT COUNTY. WLWT NEWS FIVE’S REPORTER BRIAN HAMRICK JOINING US FROM BATAVIA WITH THE LATEST ON THIS INVESTIGATION, BRIAN. YEAH. KELLY. WELL, IT’S A BIT OF A MYSTERY. THE MAN WAS HIT AND KILLED HERE ALONG 125. UH, AND THEN THE CAR TOOK OFF. UH, IT’S A STRANGE PLACE TO BE WALKING OUT AT THAT TIME OF NIGHT. UH, 125. WE’RE ACTUALLY WEST OF AMELIA. THIS IS FUSARO ROAD. IT’S A SMALL, NO OUTLET ROAD THAT WAY. AND ODD. SOMEBODY WOULD BE OUT HERE, ESPECIALLY AT THAT TIME IN THE MORNING. THIS ALL HAPPENED AT 130 IN THE MORNING. UH, INVESTIGATORS SAY THE VEHICLE THAT HIT THE MAN DIDN’T STOP. INVESTIGATORS WITH THE OHIO STATE PATROL SAID HE WAS ACTUALLY HE. THEY BELIEVE HE HIT A SECOND TIME. UM, THEY DON’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT TIME HE WAS INITIALLY HIT. SOMEONE FINALLY STOPPED CALLED 911. MAKING IT ALL MORE CURIOUS IS THERE’S NO IDENTIFYING LOCATION ON THIS MAN AT ALL. THEY ONLY KNOW THAT HE WAS A BLACK MAN IN HIS 20S OR 30S. NO I.D. ON HIM, NO SHIRT, JUST JEANS AND BOOTS. UM, HE’S NOT WEARING A SHIRT AND HAS NO IDENTIFICATION. NO PROPERTY ON HIM AT ALL. NO CELL PHONE, NO IDENTIFICATION, NOTHING IN HIS POCKETS AT ALL. SO, UM, WE DON’T HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THEM AT THIS TIME? YEAH, MAKING IT ALL A LITTLE MORE UNUSUAL IS, UH, POLICE SAY THIS LOOKED LIKE IT WAS A PRETTY HIGH SPEED CAR VISION, BUT THERE ARE NO CAR PARTS HERE. THEY COULDN’T FIND ANYTHING. NO HAZARD LIGHTS, NO HEADLIGHTS. UH, NOTHING FROM THE VEHICLE AT ALL. WHICH MAKES THAT A LITTLE MORE CURIOUS AS TO HOW THIS ALL HAPPENED AND WHAT HAPPENED HERE. REPORTING LIVE BRIAN HAMRICK WLWT NEWS FIVE. BRIAN, OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF MYSTERY STILL SURROUNDING THIS. IS THERE ANY DESTINATION NEARBY THAT IT MAY SEEM LIKE SOMEONE MAY BE HEADING THERE AROUND 130 ALONG THAT STRETCH OF ROAD? YEAH, IT’S PRETTY RURAL HERE. THERE’S NOT A LOT OUT HERE DURING THE DAYTIME, BUT ESPECIALLY EARLY, UH, AT 130 IN THE MORNING. I MEAN, YOU HAVE A FEW HOUSES HERE. UH, THERE’S A CHURCH ACROSS THE STREET THAT’S, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S FOR SALE. WOODED AREA, SOME INDUSTRIAL KIND OF THINGS, BUT THERE’S JUST NOT A LOT HERE WHERE SOMEONE WOULD HAVE BEEN GOING. I MEAN, FROM THIS SPOT AT 1:00 IN THE MORNING, YOU CAN’T SEE WHERE ANYTHING WOULD HAVE EVEN BEEN OPENED AT THAT TIME, REALLY, IN EITHER DIRECTION. SO THEY HAD TO HAVE BEEN GOING AT LEAST A MILE OR SO TO GET TO WHERE THEY WERE GOING. KELLY. ALL RIGHT. OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF QUESTIONS. BRIAN GOING TO WORK TO GET US SOME MORE ANSWERS. BRIAN. THANK YOU. NEW ON WLWT. A MAN WAS SHOT IN HIS OWN BACKYARD DURING A BREAK IN AT HIS OAKLEY HOME THIS MORNING. THIS HAPPENING BEFORE 530 ON MADISON ROAD. POLICE TELL US THE VICTIM’S INJURIES WERE NON-LIFE THREATENING. OFFICERS HAVEN’T SHARED ANY INFORMATION ON A POTENTIAL SUSPECT, BUT AN INTERSTATE WAS SHUT DOWN IN NORTHERN KENTUCKY FOR HOURS OVERNIGHT AFTER A SERIOUS CRASH IN NEWPORT. IT HAPPENED SHORTLY BEFORE 2 A.M. ON 471 NEAR THE 10TH STREET OVERPASS. SO FAR, POLICE HAVE NOT SAID ANYTHING ABOUT THE CRASH, BUT OUR CAMERAS SAW THREE CARS INVOLVED RIGHT NOW, IT’S NOT CLEAR IF ANYBODY WAS HURT. WE’RE STILL WORKING TO GET MORE AND WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED HERE ON WLWT. HAPPENING NOW. A HIGH PROFILE MURDER CASE IS BACK IN THE SPOTLIGHT, WITH A RETRIAL UNDERWAY. GURPREET SINGH FACES THE DEATH PENALTY ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS WIFE AND THREE OTHER OF HER RELATIVES. FIVE YEARS AGO. ALL OF THE VICTIMS WERE FOUND SHOT INSIDE THEIR WESTCHESTER APARTMENT BACK IN 2019, SINGH CHARGED WITH FOUR COUNTS OF AGGRAVATED MURDER, HIS FIRST TRIAL ENDING IN A HUNG JURY. NOW THE CASE BEING ARGUED AGAIN, THIS TIME BEFORE A THREE JUDGE PANEL, NOT A JURY OF HIS PEERS. THE JUDGES HAVE ALREADY HEARD OPENING ARGUMENTS AND TOURED THE CRIME SCENE. WE HAVE A TEAM IN THE COURTROOM. KARIN JOHNSON IS SENDING UPDATES AS OFTEN AS SHE CAN. WE WILL BRING YOU THE LATEST, OF COURSE, THIS AFTERNOON. DRAMATIC SCENES ARE PLAYING OUT ACROSS COLLEGE CAMPUSES OVER THE ISRAEL HAMAS WAR, INCLUDING UNIVERSITIES IN OUR REGION LIKE OHIO STATE AND INDIANA UNIVERSITY. AND PROTESTERS CONTINUE TO CLASH WITH POLICE WHILE UNIVERSITIES WORK TO DISMANTLE ENCAMPMENTS. NBC’S ERIN MCLAUGHLIN HAS MORE FROM COLUMBIA IN NEW YORK CITY. THIS MORNING WE HEARD FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, PUT OUT A STATEMENT SAYING THAT ITS TALKS WITH STUDENT PROTESTERS HAD FAILED AND THAT THE UNIVERSITY WOULD NOT BE DIVESTING FROM ISRAEL, WHICH WAS A KEY STUDENT DEMAND. AND THEY’RE CALLING ON THE STUDENTS TO LEAVE THEIR ENCAMPMENT VOLUNTARILY, SOMETHING WHICH OF COURSE SEEMS UNLIKELY. THE UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ALSO SAYING THAT THERE WILL BE A COMMENCEMENT REASSURANCE. STUDENTS NOTING THAT MANY OF THE STUDENTS MISSED THEIR HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION DUE TO THE PANDEMIC. MEANWHILE, OVER THE WEEKEND, THERE WERE POLICE CRACKDOWNS ACROSS MULTIPLE CAMPUSES. MORE THAN 250 EITHER DETAINED OR ARRESTED OVERNIGHT. THEIR ARRESTS AT VIRGINIA TECH, THE NUMBER OF ARRESTS HAVE YET TO BE CONFIRMED, BUT THERE ARE REPORTS OF DOZENS. MEANWHILE, THEIR ARRESTS AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY OVER THE WEEKEND, OVER 100 PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED AND PROTESTS TODAY ARE EXPECTED AT USC, UNIVERSITY OF MADISON, WISCONSIN AND PURDUE AS THIS UNREST CONTINUES. WE’RE ALSO GETTING SOME FOOTAGE OUT OF GAZA, AN ENCAMPMENT THERE, DISPLACED PALESTINIANS SPRAY PAINTING THEIR THANKS TO THE STUDENT PROTESTERS ALL THE WAY FROM THOUSANDS OF MILES AWAY, BACK TO YOU. THAT WAS ERIN MCLAUGHLIN REPORTING. NOW WE’LL HAVE THE LATEST ON THE NEGOTIATIONS OVER A POTENTIAL CEASE FIRE A
Feds: Ohio armored truck driver pleads guilty to taking cash meant for ATMs
Updated: 2:53 PM EDT Apr 29, 2024
An Ohio man has pled guilty in a U.S. District Court to embezzling money as a bank agent, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.Officials say Justin Eskridge, 37, of Reynoldsburg, admitted to taking more than $220,000 from PNC ATMs.Eskridge was an employee with Loomis LLC, officials say, serving as an armed service technician and delivering cash for and to federally insured financial institutions.Watch Monday afternoon’s headlines in the video player above.According to authorities, Loomis was contracted with PNC Bank to transport money to various ATMs and bank branches.Justice Department officials say Eskridge began working for Loomis in July of 2021 and transported bags of money by armored vehicle to various bank branches and ATMs.Officials say the thefts began around Dec. 14, 2022, and continued through Jan. 9, 2023.PNC tellers reported shortages totaling around $226,000, authorities say when they balanced the residual amounts on certain ATMs.Federal officials say an investigation by Loomis identified Eskridge as the technician who was servicing the route.Eskridge eventually admitted to the company that he had taken the money and led Loomis to recover around $144,000 in cash hidden in his car.As part of the plea, officials say, he will pay the remaining balance back to Loomis.The justice department says theft or embezzlement by a bank employee or agent is a federal crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
An Ohio man has pled guilty in a U.S. District Court to embezzling money as a bank agent, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio.
Officials say Justin Eskridge, 37, of Reynoldsburg, admitted to taking more than $220,000 from PNC ATMs.
Eskridge was an employee with Loomis LLC, officials say, serving as an armed service technician and delivering cash for and to federally insured financial institutions.
Watch Monday afternoon’s headlines in the video player above.
According to authorities, Loomis was contracted with PNC Bank to transport money to various ATMs and bank branches.
Justice Department officials say Eskridge began working for Loomis in July of 2021 and transported bags of money by armored vehicle to various bank branches and ATMs.
Officials say the thefts began around Dec. 14, 2022, and continued through Jan. 9, 2023.
PNC tellers reported shortages totaling around $226,000, authorities say when they balanced the residual amounts on certain ATMs.
Federal officials say an investigation by Loomis identified Eskridge as the technician who was servicing the route.
Eskridge eventually admitted to the company that he had taken the money and led Loomis to recover around $144,000 in cash hidden in his car.
As part of the plea, officials say, he will pay the remaining balance back to Loomis.
The justice department says theft or embezzlement by a bank employee or agent is a federal crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison.
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