WEATHERSFIELD — Anyone know anything about the brazen theft of a ATM machine with a mini-excavator at a convenience store in Weathersfield on Sunday morning? If so, Vermont State Police would like a word with you.

Authorities are seeking the public’s help with information about who may have been behind the controls of the heavy equipment during the caper, which occurred around 4 a.m. on Sunday morning, police said in a news release earlier this week.

Both the ATM and culprit remained unaccounted for as of midweek.

According to VSP, an “individual” operated an orange Kubota mini-excavator to smash through the exterior wall of the Jiffy Mart convenience store at Downers Four Corners in Weathersfield in the early morning hours this past Sunday. The suspect maneuvered the excavator’s bucket to scoop the ATM machine out of the building and make off with it.

Store cameras caught the operation in progress, although the footage is not clear enough to identify the operator of the excavator.

An investigation by troopers subsequently determined that the ATM machine was then transported by the excavator to Upper Falls Road where it was “unloaded” on a vehicle and the Kubota was abandoned.

Anyone with information on the matter is asked to call Trooper Galusha at the Vermont State Police’s Westminster Barracks at 802-722-4600.

John Lippman can be reached at jlippman@vnews.com