Police sound alarm on dangerous 'jugging' robbery trend sweeping across America

"Jugging rhymes with mugging, it's spread from Texas to South Carolina," Fox News Senior Correspondent Steve Harrigan said on "America Reports" on Friday. "Some police there weren't even sure what the word meant until the crime started happening in their own districts. Law enforcement warns that it could be over in a flash."

Cpl. Cecilio Reyes of the Mauldin, South Carolina, Police Department explained how the crime typically plays out. 

"They are scoping, and they will watch you as you're either coming in or going out of the bank, or watch you do ATM withdrawals, seeing how much you're getting cash wise," Reyes said. 

Harrigan described a wave of jugging arrests in Texas, before the practice began spreading to North and South Carolina. 

"In one place in South Carolina, a landscaping business owner went in a bank unaware that he was being observed, took out his weekly payroll, stopped at a gas station for a soda, and two juggers - they usually work in teams - pulled up alongside his Chevy, broke through the window and made off with what his entire payroll was, $6,000." 

Harrigan also reported that the Texas legislature is working to make jugging a specific felony, with harsher penalties than simple robbery.