A contract mail carrier in central Georgia told authorities he was robbed, but a neighbor's surveillance video told a different story. The worker, Thomas Ross Scarborough, 35, of Jeffersonville, was charged with theft by taking and false report of a crime after the video showed him and his brother faking the robbery, authorities said. The brother, Jason Scarborough, 31, faces the same charges.
A woman accused of planning a bank robbery in which a pizza deliveryman was killed by a bomb placed around his neck said she is "totally innocent," a newspaper reported.
Thieves held a bank manager and his wife hostage overnight, then accompanied the manager to work the following morning and made off with $400,000, the FBI said Monday.
A couple thwarted a would-be robber by threatening him with a decorative ax and tearing off his mask before he fled their home, authorities said.
A knife-wielding robber needed only $4, so he refused to take a $10 bill from his victim and waited while the man made change at a pizza parlor, police said Tuesday.
An 11-year-old boy who was robbed at his lemonade stand is seeing another side of humankind in the outpouring of support he has received since his story was reported.
An informant hoping for part of a $50,000 reward tape-recorded a chilling conversation that helped the FBI arrest a suspect in a bank holdup that left a teller dead, according to documents released Saturday.
A man who was buying rounds of drinks at a pub on St. Patrick's Day, after earlier complaining he was broke, has been charged with robbing a bank that morning.
Sgt. James Zboravan was fresh out of the Police Academy ten years ago when he was caught up in an extraordinary gunbattle with bank robbers that nearly killed him and underscored an intensifying arms race between criminals and lawmen.
The night manager of a Christian bookstore foiled an armed robbery by slamming the man's hand in the cash register drawer, then wrestling with him before he fled, police said. "I didn't want to hurt him, but if I would've gotten a hold of him, I would've sent him straight to the Lord," said manager Daniel Stanton, a 58-year-old retired aerospace engineer who served two tours in Vietnam.
Danny Robert Villegas liked prison so much he staged a robbery just to get back in, police say. Officers were called to the Kennedy Space Center Federal Credit Union on Monday after Villegas allegedly walked inside, told the teller he was robbing her and said, "You might as well call the police now," according to a police report.
Two robbers who thought they had an easy mark in a 68-year-old Omaha man were surprised on Sunday. Police said Earnest Coleman was sitting in his car outside an Omaha grocery store when a young man jumped into the passenger seat with a gun and demanded Coleman's money.
A police chief's son was charged with bank robbery after his father recognized him in surveillance photos, authorities said.
A customer carrying a gun foiled a man who attempted to rob a fast-food restaurant with a screwdriver in his pocket, police said.
A man's robbery attempt was thwarted by employees of a fast food restaurant after he climbed through the drive-up window demanding money, police said.
A customer at a city grocery tackled an armed robber and beat him with a can of applesauce when he refused to drop his gun, police said.
A man is suing an auto-parts store for assault and battery after he attempted to hold up the business and employees responded by beating him with a metal pipe.
A former Marine used a pocket knife to fend off a group of would-be robbers, killing one and wounding another, police said.
Two men convicted of robbing seniors each were sentenced to 60 years in prison with no possibility of parole.
Three teens accused of beating a man to death in the middle of an intersection during a robbery that netted only $3 have been charged with murder, authorities said.
A man wearing a ski mask walked into a bank and demanded money, then told tellers, "just kidding," authorities said.
Police criticized a Cypriot bank Wednesday after it handed over money to a helmeted man armed only with a bag.