A man accused of helping rob a South Omaha Wells Fargo ATM of roughly $220,000 has pleaded guilty to a federal robbery charge, months after he and two co-defendants were pulled over on Interstate 80 with cash and evidence from the heist still in their vehicle. Kendris Boston entered the guilty plea Monday after withdrawing an earlier plea, and he's now scheduled to be sentenced on January 21, 2027.
Boston pleaded guilty to one count of interference with commerce by robbery, according to KETV, which first reported the plea. He was identified as one of three men accused of carrying out ATM robberies nationwide, and the station reports he was taken into custody in Lancaster County alongside co-defendants Kaleb Tshibangu and Jacob Wallace Jr.
The South 24th Street Ambush
The robbery unfolded on January 7, 2026, when Omaha police officers responded to a Wells Fargo ATM near South 24th and L streets, per the same KETV account. An ATM technician told officers he was in the middle of maintaining the machine when two men shoved him aside and made off with cash, a confrontation that fits a pattern federal investigators have tied to Boston before.
A prosecutor said the men took about $220,000 from the ATM's internal cash cassettes before fleeing, the station's report notes. The robbery took place near South 24th and L streets in South Omaha, according to the Omaha Police Department.
Interstate 80 Stop Recovers the Cash
Lincoln police stopped the suspects' vehicle on Interstate 80 and found evidence of the robbery inside, according to Omaha police. More than $140,000 was found in the vehicle, and authorities believed the money came from the Omaha robbery. The interdiction unit included the Lancaster County Sheriff's Office and Lincoln Police Department, and the stop was near I-80 and 56th Street, per B107.3. Tshibangu and Wallace Jr. were also taken into custody in Lancaster County.
B107.3 identified Wallace Jr. as 22 and Kendris Boston as 21. Investigators have described the group as part of an out-of-state crew linked to ATM thefts across multiple jurisdictions.
A Pattern Stretching Back to 2024
This wasn't Boston's first brush with this type of crime. In August 2024, he was arrested in connection with an ATM robbery at a Bank of America in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, where he and an accomplice allegedly told an ATM technician to get out of the way and fled with $52,930 in cash cassettes, according to ATM Marketplace. Investigators recovered Boston's fingerprints from a vehicle used in that South Carolina robbery.
Boston was charged in Tulsa in a case involving license-plate swapping and surveillance of ATM repair workers, according to KOTV - News On 6. The account also described tracking and following a technician.
Federal court dockets also show a case captioned USA v. Tshibangu et al., docket 4:26-cr-03052, according to PacerMonitor.
Sentencing Scheduled for January 2027
Boston is scheduled to be sentenced on January 21, 2027.
Tshibangu and Wallace Jr. have not resolved their cases. Court records show both men have their next hearings scheduled for next Wednesday, October 28, according to PacerMonitor.
Part of a Growing National Trend
The FBI issued warnings in June 2026 about a national crime trend in which theft rings intentionally disable ATMs to trigger service calls, then rob the technicians who respond once the machines' cash vaults are exposed, per ATM Marketplace. One incident involved nearly $300,000. Industry data published by 3SI Security Systems and reported by Claims Journal has separately found that financial losses from ATM robberies average around $81,000 per incident nationally, even as traditional bank branch robberies have declined.
