Police Continue Hunt for Suspects in $60 Million Scotiabank Portmore Heist

Officers in St. Catherine South remain engaged in a major enquiry after an organised criminal group broke into the automated banking machine servicing room at Scotiabank's Portmore branch on Braeton Parkway and fled with a cash haul that early estimates place above $60 million.

Investigators say the men entered the restricted area, used security access codes to unlock four ABM safes, and removed large sums of money. Surveillance footage under review reportedly shows several individuals dressed in black and wearing gloves arriving at the site in a grey Nissan Latio sedan with its licence plate obscured. Only the cassettes holding higher-denomination notes and the one containing United States currency were emptied. Each safe is said to be capable of holding more than $20 million.

The theft was discovered shortly after 9:00 on Sunday morning when a guard on patrol noticed the access door to the ABM servicing room standing open. A video shared on social media, believed to have been recorded at the branch around that time, shows the scene that greeted security personnel. "This is what we we came and saw as I said, all of the machine them money machine open. There are a few notes inside," a voice on the recording can be heard saying.

Entry to the servicing room is restricted to specialist staff from Beryllium, the company contracted to service the machines. Regular banking employees do not have access to the area, raising questions about how the suspects obtained the codes needed to open the safes.

Senior Superintendent Leighton Gray, commanding officer for St. Catherine South, told journalists on Monday that his division had no update for the public up to news time. Requests for comment from Scotiabank and Beryllium also went unanswered by the same deadline.