Articles Tagged with robbery

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A woman was walking in Atlanta when a man allegedly followed her from a commuter train, attacked her, and took her phone and driver’s license.

According to police, the incident happened around 2 p.m. Saturday at a location in Atlanta. Police video showed a man chasing the woman before tackling her. He allegedly punched her while she was on the ground and then ran away with her belongings. Some people were nearby but they did not immediately assist the alleged victim.

Police later identified the man and arrested him at a residence around 5:15 p.m. on Monday. Officers said he became angry when they approached him and raised his fists. He allegedly made statements about the earlier assault and then threatened the officers, saying he would shoot them and others.

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A Florida man was arrested after the authorities accused him of attacking a teenage boy during a confrontation that began when two juveniles walked through his backyard.

According to investigators, a 12-year-old and a 13-year-old were crossing the property at about 7:10 p.m. when the homeowner’s wife came outside and told them to leave. The 13-year-old reportedly responded with profanity, and she went back inside to tell her husband what had happened.

The authorities said the homeowner then came outside and confronted the boys. The older teen reportedly began recording the encounter on his cellphone because he allegedly felt threatened. Investigators said the man first pushed the teen near the collarbone before allegedly grabbing him by the neck and squeezing.

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A Pennsylvania man was hospitalized after he was allegedly followed, beaten, and robbed by a group of juveniles while walking home from work late Friday night, according to the authorities.

The alleged victim, a 46-year-old man, reportedly suffered a broken nose and needed three staples in his head after the attack in South Philadelphia. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment after nearby residents apparently heard the disturbance and caused the suspects to flee the area.

According to the authorities, the man had just finished a long day working two jobs and was heading home on foot shortly before 11 p.m. He reportedly had used the same route for about a decade without problems. Investigators said four juvenile males began following him as he walked through the neighborhood.

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A Texas man accused of stealing more than $770,000 worth of diamond earrings from a Florida jewelry store rejected a plea deal and decided to represent himself at trial.

The 33-year-old defendant remained jailed without bond following his arrest in connection with a 2025 theft at a luxury jewelry store in Orlando. The authorities alleged that he stole two pairs of diamond solitaire earrings valued at more than $600,000 and $160,000.

Investigators said the man was arrested about six hours after the theft while driving on a Florida interstate several hundred miles away from Orlando. The authorities reportedly believed he was traveling back to Texas in a rented SUV.

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An officer was reportedly nearly shot in the head by a suspect when responding to an alleged theft at a Walmart store in Stark County.

The incident unfolded on December 15, after store employees at a Walmart in Canton reported two individuals suspected of stealing merchandise. Police responded and detained both suspects inside a store security office while the situation was sorted out. During the initial interaction, one of the suspects was patted down by an officer and asked whether he was carrying any weapons. He reportedly said he was not.

While both suspects were in the security room, the situation reportedly took a dangerous turn. According to investigators and body-worn camera footage later released, the male suspect, age 21, reached into a bag when no one was paying attention and retrieved a handgun. He allegedly aimed the weapon directly at the officer’s head and attempted to fire. The gun did not discharge due to a malfunction.

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A 14-year-old in Wisconsin was arrested and charged as an adult after authorities said he arranged the kidnapping of a 7-year-old boy who was held for ransom. Two adult accomplices were also charged in the case.

Investigators reported that the group initially intended to rob the child’s mother, believing she was carrying cash and narcotics. When she did not return home as expected, they allegedly decided to target the child’s father instead.

On the evening of July 11, the father and child came home from a park. As the father pulled into the driveway, a vehicle blocked his car from behind. According to investigators, two suspects exited the vehicle, and one of them was armed. The father ran into the home, and the child attempted to run toward the yard. Surveillance footage reportedly showed one individual chasing the child and carrying him back to the vehicle while another drove.

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A New York woman who was sentenced last year to 13 years in prison for the distribution of narcotics is involved in a new criminal matter where she is accused of drugging four men, three of whom passed away, to steal from them.

According to reports, the authorities continued investigating the woman, and they asserted that between April 2023 and February 2024, she was involved in additional crimes. They alleged that she was meeting men who agreed to pay her for sex, and while they were together, she had given them drugs containing fentanyl. While each alleged victim was incapacitated, the woman allegedly took their clothes, shoes, watches, cash, and phones.

The district attorney reported that the first incident they tied her to happened with two men in Washington Heights. They believed she lured them to an apartment where she gave them what the alleged victims thought was cocaine. When they came to, one of the men found the other one dead beside him. Five months later, in another instance, she and a man reportedly went to his residence, and he was later found deceased with his belongings missing. After another five months had passed, a fourth similar incident allegedly occurred at a man’s Upper Manhattan apartment.

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A Florida man who served time in prison for burglary was arrested after allegedly breaking into a couple’s home in what was deemed a violent home invasion robbery.

On August 12, while a Pinellas Park neighborhood was without power, a woman answered her front door, thinking the mail carrier had arrived. Instead, it was reportedly a 57-year-old handyman who had previously done work on the home where she and her fiancé reside. According to reports, before she realized what was happening, the man entered without an invitation and struck her in the head. When the woman’s fiancé got home, he immediately found himself engaged in a violent attack.

The suspect allegedly had sharp objects, later identified as a screwdriver and a knife, in his hand, and when the man walked through the door, he found his fiancée tied to the bed. The man was reportedly slashed multiple times on several parts of his body, in addition to being stabbed in the eye and hand. He wrestled the knife away and stabbed the suspect, leaving the man bloody and severely wounded on the living room floor.

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An 80-year-old woman is facing charges after she reportedly crashed into someone’s vehicle and slapped the driver across the face during an altercation in a parking lot.

On the afternoon of June 30, a woman with a passenger in her car was driving through the parking lot of a Walmart in Apopka, Florida. When she stopped to check her GPS, her car was blocking someone who was trying to back out of their spot, and they accidentally struck the woman’s vehicle. The driver, who was reportedly angry about the incident, got out of her car and went up to the woman whose vehicle was hit.

According to reports, the 80-year-old woman became aggressive and foul-mouthed, in addition to refusing to trade insurance information with the other driver. Since they were having trouble reaching an acceptable resolution, the driver started walking back to her vehicle. The situation escalated when the other woman stopped her and allegedly slapped her across the face. The woman also reportedly grabbed the alleged victim’s cell phone and threw it across the street.

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A man who is on parole out of Wyoming was arrested in Utah on multiple theft charges when the police located the suspect after a local news station asked for the public’s help to find him.

On the evening of May 9, a man driving a Dodge Ram reportedly entered a residential driveway in Taylorsville and parked his truck. After getting out of the vehicle, he allegedly tried to open the door to the home and then kicked open a fence in the yard. According to reports, he swiped tools from the sheds and put them in the back of his truck before driving away. When the residents returned home, they saw the broken fence and damage to their door and notified the authorities.

The alleged victims supplied the police with a home surveillance video of the incident, and it helped them identify the person they believed was the culprit. The footage was also shown on the news when a local station covered the story and asked the public to call if they had any information. Multiple people reached out, and three days after the alleged robbery, the police saw the man driving what was believed to be the same truck seen in the surveillance video. When he noticed the police, the man allegedly tried to escape but was quickly apprehended.

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