A California man was arrested after he was allegedly captured on surveillance footage using explosives in unsuccessful attempts to steal cash from two ATMs.
Son Nguyen, 44, of San Diego, was arrested Friday and charged with two counts of damaging property.
Nguyen allegedly drove up to an ATM outside California Coast Credit Union on Governor Drive in San Diego around 3:30 a.m. on June 8, when he exited his car and was seen on surveillance video taking a five-gallon blue plastic container with a white spout to the front of the ATM and inserting a black polyvinyl chloride (PVC) plastic hose into the machine just before an explosion inside the device, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California.
But despite attempting to pull money out of the ATM, Nguyen left without any cash from the machine.
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Son Nguyen, 44, was charged with two counts of damaging property. (Getty Images)