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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.
That the judge involved was a woman makes the case all the more shocking
Finnish police are looking for two Swedish members of an armed gang after preventing an attempted robbery of a vehicle loaded with cash in the municipality of Lieto near Turku on Wednesday evening.
Two men from Covington, Kentucky were each sentenced to 10-years in prison for robbing a gas station using an NES Zapper.
From the stupid criminal files - A 25 year old man tried to break into a CVS pharmacy last night...and he thought he had it all planned out.
Cops dusting G-Strings for prints. Adds a whole new meaning to 'inside job'.
..."She was attacked from behind by what she later learned to be a Hispanic man and woman," ... "They forced her into her car after striking her in the back of her head and took her and her car."
A man who snatched a laptop Sunday from the Best Buy in Gulfport was chased by a computer "geek" and tackled before he could make his getaway, police said.
The jury ordered Jammie Thomas, 32, from Minnesota, to pay for offering to share 24 specific songs online - a cost of $9,250 per song. But the fine could have been millions, as record companies said she illegally shared a total of 1,702 songs.
I'm always amazed when people say "There's no such thing as terrorism": "It is the latest in a series of deadly attacks blamed on Islamist militants in the North Waziristan tribal region near the border with Afghanistan.
A citizen journalist reports on a drug that robs people of free will. It is used in Columbia to rob, rape and kill.
Hey bank robbers! Looking for a venue that won't ask you to remove that mask? Try burka-friendly Washington Mutual in San Francisco:
One of the men charged alongside O.J. Simpson in the alleged Las Vegas memorabilia robbery believes incident was a setup.
..Meanwhile, the sports memorabilia collector who accused Simpson of armed robbery said Saturday that he is now "on O.J.'s side" and prefers that the whole case be dismissed. "I want this thing to go away. I have health problems," said Alfred Beardsley, the Burbank, Calif.
A feckless stick-up man chose the wrong target when he was beaten and hospitalized in an attempted robbery of a karate school in Bucaramanga in northwestern Colombia, police said.
...A Florida sheriff is under fire after blaming gangsta rap songs for some of his community's violent crimes. Lee County Sheriff Mike Scott has responded to two armed robberies in recent days and in both cases, the clerks were shot even though they were cooperative.
...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... He then took the $4 and ran off, only to be captured a few blocks away, police said... trunki.org
A robber who held up a bookmakers with his girlfriend's vibrator was jailed today. Nicki Jex concealed the Rampant Rabbit sex toy in a carrier bag and pretended it was a gun during the raid on the Ladbrokes shop in Leicester on December 27 last year.
Desperation drives the desperate to desperate measures! There is very little in this article that could be singled out as a lead-in. Read it and see what I mean.
Police believe two separate robberies in Belfast in which a flammable liquid was poured over staff may be linked. The first incident happened at a bookmakers on Ravenhill Avenue shortly after 2115 BST on Saturday.
It's late afternoon in Ashland, Kentucky. Temperatures skyrockets as people flee for the inviting safe haven of an air conditioned room or perhaps a shadow casted from the nearest tree. Mouths are parched behind dry lips while a man steps into Shamrock Liquors.
As Newark cops yesterday continued hunting for three people suspected in a grisly schoolyard massacre there, residents said several of the men were part of a notorious street gang.
The bag lady was whistling a tune that she learned as a cheer leader at Cambridge. She remembered how it had inspired the football team to climb to the top of the their division. But that chapter of her life has passed.
CBS 11 News provides us with an article (albeit a horribly written one) and video about a robbery at a Game Stop in Arlington. Two young boys happened to walk into the store during the robbery, and were forced at gunpoint onto the ground.
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