Delaware County man sentenced to more than 7 years in federal prison for blowing up 6 ATMs to steal cash

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Delaware County man is headed to prison after being convicted in federal court for a string of six ATM robberies using explosives.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, between October 2020 and March 2021, Cushmir McBride, 25, of Yeadon and two co-defendants blew up ATMs at Target and Wawa stores in Claymont, Delaware, and Philadelphia and a Wells Fargo branch in Philadelphia.

Prosecutors said McBride and his co-defendants were able to make off with more than $417,000 from the robbery spree — all of which, and more, he must now pay back in restitution.

McBride pleaded guilty in January of this year to charges including conspiracy to maliciously damage property used in interstate commerce by means of an explosive, and aiding and abetting, as well as five separate counts of maliciously damaging property used in interstate commerce by means of an explosive. Sentenced on Wednesday, McBride will spend the next seven and a half in federal prison.

The explosive robbery spree began on Oct. 28, 2020, two days after a Philadelphia police officer killed Walter Wallace Jr. Officials say McBride, Nasser McFall, 25, of Claymont and Kamar Thompson, 37, of Philadelphia used the ensuing civil unrest as a cover to target an ATM at a Port Richmond Target store.

The next day, officials said, the trio hit an ATM at a Wawa on Richmond Street in Philadelphia. Two days later, they did the same at a Wawa in Northeast Philadelphia, officials said. On Nov. 4, 2020, they blew up an ATM at a Wawa in Claymont, according to law enforcement officials. On Dec. 2, 2020, they targeted an ATM at a Philadelphia Wells Fargo branch.

McBride was also separately charged with blowing up a Wells Fargo ATM in Philadelphia on March 2, 2021, officials said.

Thompson pleaded guilty to the charges against him in November 2021. McFall pleaded guilty to five charges against him in June 2022, and in January of this year he was sentenced to six and a half years in prison with three years of supervised release, and restitution in the amount of $256,083.