By Steve Neavling
Ticklethewire.com
This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill bank heist.
Florida public works officials were responding to a reported sinkhole in Pembroke Pines when they discovered a secret underground tunnel leading to a Chase bank. The employees called the FBI after spotting the entrance of the tunnel in a wooded area.
A day later, on Wednesday, FBI special agent Michael Leverock told reporters that investigators were baffled how anyone believed they could penetrate a high-security bank from a “claustrophobic” tunnel that was 2- to 3-feet in diameter.
Leverock said there’s no evidence the bank or ATM was breached, but the tunnel was about 50 yards long and did reach Chase’s property.
“This is truly a unique case here,” Leverock said. “I would like to say that I saw something like this in movies, however, this hole is so small that – it’s unique.”
Attempted bank burglary. 50 yard tunnel leads to Chase Bank branch at 390 S. Flamingo Road, Pembroke Pines, FL. Call FBI with information 754.703.2000. pic.twitter.com/nK0rZi8QTO
— FBI Miami (@FBIMiamiFL) January 30, 2019
FBI agents found a power cord, small generator and other items that were not disclosed.
“I don’t know how they did it. I would like to put it into words for you. But it is so cramped in there, and that wagon is – I mean it’s a puzzle. I can’t imagine how they did it,” he said.
