HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. (AP) – If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM. Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday. They smashed the front window of Dario Rodriguez’s deli in Holtsville, withdrew the automated teller machine and fled.

Rodriguez said police told him there had been a dozen such smash-and-grabs recently. “They break in, take the whole machine and are gone by the time the cops get here,” he told Newsday.

The crooks crack open the ATMs, which can hold thousands of dollars each, remove the Andrew Jacksons and deposit the empty machines in the woods.

Detective Sgt. Frank Stewart said several of the thefts had been solved with a recent arrest.