ATM

“It seems like the Joshua tree has become somewhat of an ATM for government officials,” he said.

In Fresno, the crew hit a Wells Fargo in May and used tools to get inside an ATM vault through an adjacent unit and made off with more than $80,000 in cash.

The ATM machines, Issa said, were discarded once the money was removed.

"The fact that bank hubs are not required to have a 24/7 ATM is also ludicrous."

Just a few weeks later, law enforcement allege, Nguyen targeted an ATM at a First Citizen’s Bank in Rancho Bernardo about 20 miles north of the initial attempt, using the same technique.