HAYWARD, Calif. -- For a group of robbers in California, crime didn't pay.

Police said robbers crashed a van into a Hayward food mart and stole the mart's ATM -- but that ATM was empty, KTVU-TV in San Jose reported.

Hayward police released video footage of the crash-and-dash heist late Wednesday and announced that they had found the van used in the robbery.

Authorities said the robbery took place at around 6 a.m. at the closed food mart. Officers who arrived at the scene found a gaping hole in the front of the store where the robbers had driven the van through the front doors.

Surveillance footage showed one of the robbers jumping out of the van wearing a white baseball cap with an “H” on it and hooking up a rope to the ATM.

The van then pulled out, ripping the ATM from its stand, and drove away dragging the machine outside.

Police said that the ATM was empty; the money is kept in a vault located under the machine and below the floor.