Five plead guilty in latest federal ATM jackpotting case
Federal law enforcement continued to warn about ATM jackpotting gangs as it announced guilty pleas from five Venezuelan nationals.
Five Venezuelan nationals have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank larceny after prosecutors accused them of being part of a group dedicated to robbing ATMs using malware.
A Kansas federal court sentenced Luis Alberto Velasquez-Artigas, 27, to nine months in prison while the other four defendants — Royder Adrian Figuera-Perez, 29, Javier Mejia, Jr, 27, Gabriel Alexjandro Corales-Garcia, 33, and Italo Lizandro Corrales-Carrillo, 26 — are awaiting sentencing.
According to court documents, the men drove from Indiana to Kansas in December 2025 to rob several ATMs in Wamego and Manhattan through jackpotting — a process in which criminals break into an ATM and install malware that allows them to empty it.
Source: https://therecord.media/kansas-atm-jackpotting-guilty-pleas
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