Brink’s driver smuggled $1M from Michigan ATMs in lunch box, feds say
LANSING, Mich. – A former driver for a private security and protection company in Michigan has been charged with stealing more than a million dollars from 24 ATMs over a six-week span and smuggling the ill-gotten gains out in a lunch box.
Reginald Carman, 23, was indicted on 12 counts of bank larceny linked to $1,060,200 in cash taken from FDIC banks between Nov. 15, 2021, and Dec. 28, 2021, while he was employed by Brink’s, WJBK reported.
According to the Lansing State Journal, the thefts stopped after Carman stopped showing up for work.
Suspicions were piqued when a credit union discovered about $350,000 missing and reported the shortfall to the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Jan. 6. In turn, Brink’s investigators reviewed video footage and said they spotted Carman putting a clear bag full of money into a Brink’s lunch box on Dec. 21, WJBK reported.
According to an investigator, Brink’s issues the clear bags to employees so personal belongings can be observed when necessary, the TV station reported.
When Brink’s officials confronted Carman about the thefts, he allegedly admitted to taking the money and returned most of it over the course of several meetings with the company’s security officials, but some $22,000 of the stolen money has not been recovered, MLive.com reported.
Carman allegedly told investigators “that his father had recently passed away and his mind was not right when he was stealing the money,” according to the criminal complaint.
