Newfoundland’s ‘backhoe bandits’ are using stolen machinery to abduct ATMs in an increasing crime wave

A thief driving a stolen front-end loader crashed into the only bank of a small Newfoundland town this week and made off with the ATM in the back of a dump truck, in yet another case of “backhoe bandits” plaguing the easternmost province.It was the third time this year robbers have plowed heavy pieces of machinery into businesses, in an effort to steal cash from ATMs, one of many such heists in the past several years, according to police.