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Man gets prison for blowing up Philly ATMs with dynamite, hauling off $417k
By Krystal Nurse, USA TODAY,
9 days ago
A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to prison Wednesday for his part in a ring that blew up ATM machines and carted off over $400,000 amid chaos, looting and protests in Philadelphia over a police officer's fatal shooting of a 27-year-old citizen.
Cushmir McBride was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison after pleading guilty to detonating explosives inside of ATMs at a Target, Wells Fargo branch and Wawa stores from October 2020 to March 2021.
McBride was indicted in April 2021 along with Nasser McFall and Kamas Thompson. They all pleaded guilty in separate court hearings. McFall was sentenced to 6.5 years in prison. Thompson is awaiting sentencing.
Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives Special Agent Joseph Mangoni wrote in McBride's 2021 indictment that the group had broken into a Target, along with others, and detonated an ATM inside on Oct. 28, 2020. They repeated the same steps over the next few days, detonating ATMs at Wawa and Wells Fargo locations in the Philadelphia area until Dec. 2, 2020. McBride faced further charges for blowing up an ATM in March 2021.
Romero said in a statement the men stole around $417,000. Mangoni described the explosives used as "M-type devices," ranging from M-80 to M-1000, with the highest commonly referred to as a quarter to a half stick of dynamite.
The devices are typically hard cardboard tubes filled with explosive material and have a fuse sticking out.
"These devices carry enough explosives to cause serious bodily injury and in certain cases death," Mangoni wrote. "The devices are not legally manufactured, sold, or imported in the United States and are classified as Illegal Explosive Devices under federal law."
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