The dependable of explosions rang retired successful Palmdale aboriginal Sunday greeting aft thieves tried to stroke their mode into an ATM.
It happened astir 4:05 a.m. astatine a Bank of America ATM located adjacent the intersection of 50th Street West and West Avenue N.
Bomb technicians from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Special Enforcement Bureau arrived connected country and recovered the ATM damaged with a broadside sheet connected the crushed and grounds of an explosion.
But contempt the dense harm to the machine, would-be thieves were incapable to get to immoderate of currency inside, the Sheriff’s Department said.
A nonmigratory successful the country told KTLA that the detonation could beryllium heard from much than a mile distant and determination were respective windows of adjacent shops that had their windows blown out.
An probe is ongoing, but determination was nary contiguous menace to immoderate residents successful the neighborhood, the Sheriff’s Department added.