Trustco’s night-deposit safe stolen
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GUILDERLAND — A night-deposit safe was reported missing at 7 a.m. Tuesday from the Trustco Bank at 1475 Western Ave. in Stuyvesant Plaza, according to Guilderland Police.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Guilderland Police are currently investigating the safe’s disappearance, which was taken sometime Monday night, police say. The contents of the safe have not been disclosed.
Senior Investigator John Tashjian of the Guilderland Police said this week that Trustco Bank reported "there was a hole in the wall adjacent to the bank where the night deposit safe had been located."

Tashjian told The Enterprise Tuesday that the safe was removed from the wall and opened, and that at least some of its contents were removed, but he said it is unknown exactly how many deposits were taken out.
"They took the face plate off," Tashjian said about the safe’s removal. "We were called and we notified the FBI of the nature of the case."
Tashjian said the FBI has certain criteria for the cases it investigates and does not know if it will continue to pursue the case. He said for now, however, it is considered a "joint investigation."

The safe was located near the bank’s entrance and the hole where the safe used to be is now covered up by plywood.
"They weigh a few hundred pounds," Tashjian said of the deposit safes, indicating that at least two or more people helped remove it.

There are surveillance video cameras posted at the Trustco Bank, Tashjian said, but police are not yet revealing what they reviewed on the security tapes. Police are pursuing the case as a grand larceny offense, which is a felony.

Guilderland Police are asking anyone who may have seen something suspicious at the bank Monday evening, or have any information about the incident, to contact them at 356-1502.