Police sound alarm on dangerous 'jugging' robbery trend sweeping across America

As surveillance footage of an progressively fashionable convulsive thoroughfare transgression has surfaced from South Carolina, constabulary are informing Americans of the disturbing trend. 

The transgression is known arsenic "jugging," a benignant of robbery successful which criminals surveil banks and ATMs, watching for victims who retreat ample sums of money. When those victims decorativeness their transactions, the "juggers" volition usually travel them to a secondary location, wherever they volition rob the victims, often wrong their vehicles. 

"Jugging rhymes with mugging, it's dispersed from Texas to South Carolina," Fox News Senior Correspondent Steve Harrigan said connected "America Reports" connected Friday. "Some constabulary determination weren't adjacent definite what the connection meant until the transgression started happening successful their ain districts. Law enforcement warns that it could beryllium implicit successful a flash."

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In the footage, captured connected April 26, a antheral tin beryllium seen struggling wrong the beforehand rider country of a reddish truck, earlier jumping retired of that conveyance and into a silver SUV. The SUV past speeds off, and it is captured from antithetic surveillance angles fleeing the parking lot. 

Cpl. Cecilio Reyes of the Mauldin, South Carolina, Police Department explained however the transgression typically plays out. 

Cpl. Cecilio Reyes spoke to Fox News Channel astir the inclination of "jugging" crimes. (Fox News)

"They are scoping, and they volition ticker you arsenic you're either coming successful oregon going retired of the bank, oregon ticker you bash ATM withdrawals, seeing however overmuch you're getting currency wise," Reyes said. 

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Harrigan described a question of jugging arrests successful Texas, earlier the signifier began spreading to North and South Carolina. 

A road invited motion from the authorities of South Carolina. (Getty Images)

"In 1 spot successful South Carolina, a landscaping concern proprietor went successful a slope unaware that helium was being observed, took retired his play payroll, stopped astatine a state presumption for a soda, and 2 juggers – they usually enactment successful teams – pulled up alongside his Chevy, broke done the model and made disconnected with what his full payroll was, $6,000." 

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Harrigan besides reported that the Texas legislature is moving to marque jugging a circumstantial felony, with harsher penalties than elemental robbery.