A Venezuelan suspected of being in the U.S. illegally is accused of stealing around $68,000 from a Cañon City ATM in May by infecting it with malware that caused the machine to dispense money without a transaction, according to city police and federal prosecutors.

In July, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California announced that a grand jury indicted Joel Morantes-Leal, 25, and an alleged co-conspirator on charges of stealing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" from more than 30 ATMs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, Utah and Washington.

Morantes-Leal was taken into custody in late May in the Denver area, according to a Thursday news release from Cañon City police.

He faces charges of third-degree burglary and cybercrime in Cañon City. He also fa

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