ATM thieves drain $60,000 from machine, camera helps catch them

Arlington police are investigating a string of thefts in which a group of people apparently tricked a cash machine out of $60,000 over several months.

The thefts occurred at one Boeing Employees Credit Union machine in the Smokey Point area of Snohomish County, said BECU spokesman Todd Pietzsch.

Pietzsch said the thieves were able to trick the machine's software program in a way that caused it not to recognize that it had dispensed money, and it would then dispense money again, "so they were actually getting twice as much as they should have."