Feb. 19, 2026 — Seattle Ahmon Hogg, 22, of Humble, Texas, and Seth Coles-Body, 23, of Houston, Texas, pleaded guilty on Feb. 4, 2026, in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to four counts of bank robbery and two counts of attempted bank robbery as part of a scheme that targeted ATM repair technicians across six states, including a robbery in Redmond, Washington, on March 7, 2025.
The defendants were members of a robbery ring that disabled ATMs, often by gluing the card readers shut, then ambushed repair technicians when they arrived to open the machines and steal the cash cassettes, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The scheme resulted in nearly $769,000 stolen from banks including Bank of America and Wells Fargo in Washington, Oregon, Texas, Arizona, Mississippi, and Maine.
In the Redmond incident, Hogg and Coles-Body vandalized a Bank of America ATM, prompting a repair call. When the technician opened the machine, the pair assaulted him in a scuffle and stole five cash cassettes containing about $221,000, as detailed in federal court documents. Five damaged cassettes were later recovered along state Highway 520.
The pair had been previously identified and briefly detained by Phoenix police during an attempted robbery but were released before striking again in Redmond, per KIRO 7 reporting.
Hogg and Coles-Body are scheduled for sentencing in April by U.S. District Judge James Robart and face significant prison time, with the court ordering nearly $769,000 in restitution, FOX 26 Houston reported. The case was investigated by the FBI, Redmond Police Department, and other agencies.
The guilty pleas follow initial arrests and charges in July 2025 after a string of similar robberies in Washington, as covered by FOX 13 Seattle. A local Patch Redmond newsletter highlighted the Redmond ATM repair call that escalated into this federal case as a top community story.
