Authorities are looking for suspects who rammed a store wall to make off with the ATM inside.

Lincoln County Sheriff Steve Rushing said employees arriving at the General Store on Hwy. 550 in the Loyd Star community this morning discovered a hole in the wall and the ATM usually located inside missing.

Rushing believes the heist took more than one person to pull off.

“They took a vehicle and rammed the side of the wall, knocked a hole in the wall and pulled the ATM up from the floor and took it,” he said.

Employees arrived at 4:30 a.m. so the burglary could have happened anytime after the store closed Wednesday night and this morning, he said.

Rushing estimates the damage to the store to be several thousand dollars. It’s not known how much cash was in the ATM machine.

Deputies recovered the empty ATM and the truck they believe was used in the crime about a mile away from the store on a gravel road off Hwy. 550.

The truck did not have a Lincoln County tag and deputies are checking to establish ownership. Rushing believes the truck is likely stolen.

Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to call the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office at 601-833-5251 or CrimeStoppers at 601-823-0150.