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Burglars detonated an improvised explosive device to gain access to an ATM at the Target store in San Ramon in the wee hours of the morning Sunday, according to city police.
No injuries were reported in the overnight explosion, and FBI personnel were remaining on scene for most of the day as part of the active investigation, according to San Ramon police Lt. Mike Pistello.
“There is no immediate danger to the community and we are thankful no innocent bystanders were injured,” Pistello said in a press release Sunday afternoon confirming the brazen after-hours crime.
San Ramon Police Department officers were called to the Target in The Shops at Bishop Ranch shopping center on Bishop Drive just before 2:20 a.m. Sunday (July 20) on a report of a commercial burglary, Pistello said.
Arriving officers discovered that an IED had been used to gain entry to an ATM. Nobody was injured, but the explosion damaged a portion of the store’s interior near the eastern customer entrance, according to Pistello.
The lieutenant said that because of the nature of the investigation, the FBI’s field office in San Francisco was contacted and federal agents responded to the Target. FBI personnel were expected to be processing the crime scene for the rest of the day Sunday.
The circumstances remain under active investigation, and no arrests have been announced to date. Anyone with information relevant to the case can contact San Ramon police Detective Hugh Cotton at hcotton@sanramon.ca.gov or FBI media coordinator Cameron Polan at Media.sf@fbi.gov.
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