Two men accused in the smash-and-grab of an ATM machine in Mount Pearl won’t be dealt with until the new year.

Thirty-year-old Joshua Weir and 61-year old Larry Whelan were arrested and charged after the RBC on Commonwealth Avenue was hit in January of this year.

An excavator was used to tear into the front of the branch, shutting it down for most of this year until it reopened in the fall.

Weir and Whelan were charged with break and enter, theft of a motor vehicle, theft over $5,000, and mischief over $5,000. Weir also faces charges of possession of property obtained by crime, and breach of probation.

He was sentenced to two years in jail earlier this year in connection with a similar5 incident where an ATM was ripped from the Credit Union in Witless Bay.

The so-called “backhoe bandit” was also implicated in another one at the RBC in Holyrood this time last year.

Weir’s lawyer noted there’s a lot of disclosure to still sift through, and his charges were postponed until February 11th.

Whalen is due back in court on January 19th.