California ATM thieves are apparently using stolen golf carts to make their getaways.

Fresno County sheriff's spokesman Chris Curtice says the heists appear to be the work of the same crooks.

The Fig Garden Golf Club was their latest target. One day an employee heard an alarm and spotted the crooks fleeing down a fairway in a golf cart.

The Fresno Bee says deputies discovered the thieves had used an all-terrain vehicle to pull the top off the ATM, but they fled in the golf cart before they could get any cash.

Two men stole an ATM from Blackbeard's entertainment center on March 7. Sgt. Mark Hudson says the thieves loaded the cash machine into a golf cart stolen last month from the Fort Washington Golf Course.

Source: The Fresno Bee, http:// www.fresnobee.com

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