Locals awoken by noise of pick-up hauling cashpoint out of premises

POLICE are probing a Co-op cash machine gang after two stores were rammed in smash and grab thefts over the weekend.

- BY RYAN CARROLL

Officers were called to a store on Kirkintilloch Road in Lenzie, near Glasgow, after the first incident was reported at around 2.15am on Saturday.

Officers were responding to reports of a break-in and theft of cash from an ATM.

Pictures taken from the scene of the Co-op store showed glass scattered across the floor after the machine had been ripped out of the premises.

The 'free cash withdrawals' sign could be seen amid various other debris, with a police car positioned outside the shop.

Officers were then called to a second Co-op outlet on Perth Road in Scone following another report of a break-in at around 3.15am on Sunday.

Again an ATM was hauled out from within the store and ripped through the front of the shop.