{"id":132320,"date":"2023-09-29T15:34:58","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T19:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=132320"},"modified":"2023-10-10T16:34:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T20:34:54","slug":"georgia-man-accused-of-blowing-up-atm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=132320","title":{"rendered":"Georgia Man Accused of Blowing up ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Gist:<\/strong> A 53-year-old resident of DeKalb County faces a federal indictment for allegedly destroying an ATM in Decatur&#8217;s North DeKalb Mall and possessing illegal explosives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to prosecutors, Abdurrahim Jalal took about $88,000 from the machine&#8217;s vault after the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Details:<\/strong> On March 29, at approximately 3:11 a.m., an explosion rocked the Bank of America ATM at North DeKalb Mall. Abdurrahim Jalal is accused of causing the explosion and subsequently taking the money from the machine&#8217;s vault. Prosecutors say a search of his home revealed additional explosive devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Context:<\/strong> Abdurrahim Jalal made his initial court appearance on September 27. The case is part of the Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, aimed at reducing violent crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong> The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Dash A. Cooper and involved the DeKalb County Fire Rescue in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gist: A 53-year-old resident of DeKalb County faces a federal indictment for allegedly destroying an ATM in Decatur&#8217;s North DeKalb Mall and possessing illegal explosives. According to prosecutors, Abdurrahim Jalal took about $88,000 from the machine&#8217;s vault after the explosion. The Details: On March 29, at approximately 3:11 a.m., an explosion rocked the Bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":27143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14194],"class_list":["post-132320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","tag-atm","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}