>>hamburg police are searching for a trio of thieves, they say the group could be targeting small businesses in the area good evening once again, i'm wendy davis, i'm rob vaughn police say it wasn't luck that netted those 3 guys a handful of cash, they say that i'm pried open a series of game machines and they swiped the cash and took off.

Police have released photos of the men that they're trying to identify authorities can tear winfrey is live the number of market with the details for us tonight is >>rob and wendy employees say when the 3 men came inside they took turns huddling around the machine and that one man used a tool to pry open the cash box employees believe the men may have gotten away with it with a couple grand.

>>a surveillance image shows 3 men huddled around one of the pennsylvania skill game machines inside the hamburg market and they put it in here and got this open just enough to get their hand down and then in the what picture you can see with the guy just pulls up with chunk.

>>and counts to see what he has.

>>winning these games takes a bit of skill and luck, but police say these men cashed in on crying, they got in a little bit out of each machine employees say on monday.

This man came in first, they say he scoped out the place left big came back with 2 other people all 3 of them went back to the scene and they worked at the first one against each other and against got what they could get out of it and then they just continued on down the road, i'm told the men spent about 20 minutes by the machine, the car got suspicious when the man left without ever attempting to cash in any winnings vote time.

>>the court to turn what was going on the subject had left the store police say they are checking with other police departments to see if similar thefts have happened since these types of machines are relatively new to pennsylvania.

They're starting to filter their way into.

A convenience stores are filtering their way into decisions, bars and things like that.

>>police say they have a few leads to go on and they're optimistic about solving the case we really use your help in stopping them.

And police urged businesses with machines like this to be aware.

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