A three-week search for the suspect in the botched theft of a cash machine outside an eastern Kansas bank has ended.

Franklin County authorities had identified a person of interest shortly after an ATM was removed the morning of May 20 outside Patriots Bank in Princeton. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the 33-year-old man was arrested Tuesday outside a hospital in Emporia.

The suspect was being held on several charges including felony theft, criminal damage and fleeing.

Franklin County deputies responded to a bank alarm the morning of the crime and arrived to see the ATM being slowly pushed along a street by a pickup truck.

The driver abandoned the cash machine and sped away, then crashed the truck several miles away and ran off.