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Francis Anderson robbed a garage while wearing a helmet worn by the villain in the Star Wars movies. Read Full Story: Link Removed

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CHICAGO -- An off-duty Chicago police officer dressed as a clown for a fundraiser shot and killed a teen who authorities say was trying to rob him Read Full Story: Link Removed

Mr. Caesar, who escaped police custody in New York while handcuffed to a chair, has been caught. Red-faced police managed to track down and recapture Caesar after he broke out from the police station before questioning. He was said to have been recaptured while riding a bike with the...

Florida resident Cameron Pittman failed in his attempt to rob a shop with a PlayStation controller, not least because police officers walked into the convenience store in the middle of the fiasco. Mr Pittman was arrested by police in St Petersburg and charged with strong-arm robbery and...

An officer was walking in to the Stoughton bank as an alleged robber was running out, and he chased him down. It only took 90 seconds for the robber to walk in the front doors of the bank until he was in handcuffs. As he was walking out with the cash he walked by a police officer, who was...

A plucky pair of pensioners fended off a knifeman trying to rob them, armed with just a bottle of Flash cleaning fluid. June Cawkill and Norma Doherty were working at the Millgate Service Station when a man threatened them with a knife and demanded the money from the till. However, the...

A would-be robber who made a failed attempt to hold up a Jack in the Box restaurant was arrested when he returned to the same restaurant the next day, San Diego police said. The man walked in to the Jack in the Box on Wednesday and demanded cash from an employee, saying he had a gun. He had...

State police in Pennsylvania are trying to track down a mummy. Law enforcement officials say a man entered an Exxon Buy N' Fly mini-mart in the village of Herminie on Feb. 21 with a hatchet in his hand and dark cloth wrapped around his face like a mummy. No one was injured in the robbery...

CHICKASHA, Okla. — A suspected thief was taken into custody after allegedly trying to conceal a stolen chainsaw by stuffing it down his pants as one would a candy bar, according to local news reports. Police say 21-year old Anthony Black was eyeing an Echo chainsaw, but decided that a grab...

WARREN, Mich. — Warren police said a man has been charged after he told a store clerk he didn't have to pay for cigarettes because he was a king. Joseph Lawrence Borowiak is charged with strong-arm robbery and resisting arrest after being accused of threatening a 7-Eleven store clerk on...

HERMINIE, Pa. — State police in Greensburg are investigating an unusual armed robbery at a Westmoreland County gas station. Trooper Stephen Limani said a man robbed the Buy 'n Fly in Herminie on Monday afternoon after wrapping himself in fabric to conceal his identity. "We're told he...

Pawel Adamczyk got himself into a spot of bother during a recent raid in Poland when, unable to escape with his stash of stolen goods, he had to ask his victim to let him out of the house. Adamczyk, 27, was drunk as tried to steal from a house in Poland in a crime that went not quite to plan...

A man accused of robbing a Seattle convenience store at gunpoint last weekend might have earned points with its owner by being polite. But saying "sir" probably won't impress prosecutors or federal authorities who say they have supervised him since he wrapped up a prison term for an earlier...

CARLSBAD, Calif. — Despite being sprayed with mace, the owner of a Carlsbad pizzeria and an employee still managed to stop a suspect, put him in a headlock and deliver a pizza. Employees had just put the last pizza in the oven at Paradise Pizza on Wednesday night when a suspect entered the...

Wounded Man Found in Trunk of Car After Fender Bender This was a fender bender with a dark side. When a blue BMW rear-ended a taxicab in New York City on Wednesday morning, it seemed like a routine traffic accident in a crowded city. Then things took a strange twist. The driver of...

'Help, I'm in the trash truck!' Hapless 'thief' almost killed when his hideaway starts to crush him By Link Removed - Invalid URL Last updated at 5:08 PM on 24th September 2010 Comments (35) Add to My Stories When police were called out to a robbery at their local...

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