Williamstown Charges 2 With ATM Burglary

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11:56AM / Monday, June 22, 2026Print Story | Email Story

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Williamstown Police Department announced Monday that two people were arrested on Saturday while attempting to manipulate the hardware and software of an automated teller machine at the Adams Community Bank, 273 Main St., a criminal act known as "jackpotting."

Working in conjunction with bank security agents, officers located and arrested two people in possession of tools and digital equipment used to access and modify the ATM to allow for theft of funds.

The men arrested were tentatively identified as: Manuel Antonio Moguea-Gutierrez, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Roberto Flores Zabaleta, 20, of New York City.

Both men have been charged with breaking into a depository, possession of burglarious tools, unauthorized access to a computer system and destruction of property, value over $1,200.

"These arrests indicate how regional, multi-state and even international criminal activity can impact our community," Police Chief Michael Ziemba said. "The persons arrested this weekend appear to be part of a larger criminal organization that perpetrates financial crimes on a wide scale. The Williamstown Police Department is working with state and federal agencies to continue this investigation."

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Williamstown Housing Trust Gets Update on Summer Street Project

By Stephen DravisiBerkshires Staff
05:38PM / Thursday, August 27, 2026

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – Northern Berkshire Habitat for Humanity continues to make progress on a planned four-home subdivision off Summer Street despite rising costs.

NBHFH project manager Keith Davis was back before the board of the town's Affordable Housing Trust in August to give an update on the project being developed on a parcel granted to the non-profit by the trustees.

"The majority of the site work is now done," Davis said. "The road base is completely in. We won't blacktop the road until the first foundation is done. It doesn't make any sense to drive a loaded cement truck over fresh blacktop.

"The detention basin is in. All the [stormwater] structures are in. I talked to [DPW Director] Craig Clough about coming in and looking at it, so he can verify all the structures are in. Because a lot of them get buried. That's the next step, to do that and sod it."

The construction package to build the road and stormwater infrastructure cost NBHFH $330,000. The Affordable Housing Trust kicked in $120,000 toward that, and the trustees have committed another $100,000 toward the construction cost of the first home to be built in what the non-profit has named the Meadowlands Subdivision.

Davis told the board at its Aug. 19 meeting that a couple of issues have popped up that have slowed the project and added cost.

One was the removal of an additional five trees on the 1.75-acre parcel.

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