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Two men pled guilty to ATM Solutions robbery

March 7, 2011

Two men have pled guilty to last summer's robbery of ATM Solutions Inc.'s St. Louis office and warehouse before escaping with $6.6 million.

Ryechine Money, 32, Thursday admitted to being one of four gunmen who robbed the business Aug. 2. John Wesley Jones, 38, pled guilty to four-counts of superseding information, charging him with armed robbery. The U.S. Attorney's Office filed the complaint Jan. 21 with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri in St. Louis. Jones and Money are residents of St. Louis.

The holdup occurred when four robbers, armed with assault rifles and handguns, forced their way inside ATM Solutions offices at 5 a.m., just as a security guard arrived for work.

The robbersdisarmed him and waited for a second security guard to arrive. They also took his gun and forced the security guards to open the safe. After tying up the guards, the robbers loaded the cash into an armored car and escaped. ATM Solutions, which is based in Cincinnati, offered a rewardof up to $150,000 for information leading to the arrest and capture of the gunmen.

FBI agents arrested Jones after $250,000 was found in the trunk of his Dodge Charger. In addition to Jones' car, FBI agents found money taken in the robbery in the attic of Jones' home and in a storage locker.

Money pled guilty to interfering with interstate commerce by robbery and possessing a handgun during a crime. The FBI originally charged Money with transporting more than $5,000 to Houston. The FBI has not disclosed information about the two other men allegedly involved in the heist.

ATM Solutions services ATMs in Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.