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A Florida man in a surgical mask was caught by the police following a near-getaway after allegedly stealing thousands of pills in an alleged armed robbery of a pharmacy.

At approximately 6:00 p.m. on October 20, a man wearing a surgical mask and a hat walked into a CVS Pharmacy in Orlando.

He reportedly approached the clerk at the counter and handed them a note. The writing on the piece of paper allegedly said to give him all bottles of Oxycodone, Hydrocodone, Xanax, Adderall, Liquid codeine/promethazine, and Viagra they had in stock. The note reportedly specified that he would shoot the person closest to him if the pharmacy workers did not meet his demands. He added that after they filled a bag with the medications and the note, they were to lay on the ground, or he would shoot.

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A Florida man with 139 prior felonies who was wanted on a parole violation was arrested after allegedly smashing a car through a condominium, removing his ankle monitor, and diving out the window of an apartment he reportedly burglarized.

At approximately 4:00 am on June 11, the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office was notified by 911 informing them that many people had called to report an ongoing incident at the Sandalwood Apartments in Wildwood. According to the callers, a car had smashed into the building, and the driver was breaking into the units in the building.

The authorities rushed to the scene, and they learned the man trapped himself in an apartment on the second floor. Police attempted to coax him outside, but the man refused. Members of SCSO S.W.A.T. and a crisis negotiation team arrived, and they spent several hours trying to de-escalate the situation.

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A man in North Carolina was arrested after a 6-hour standoff for allegedly holding people hostage in a residence and threatening to shoot them.

According to reports, around 3:00 AM on May 21, the Spindale Police Department was notified about gunshots that were believed to have been fired inside a home.

Officers were dispatched to the address, and when they got there someone told them that there were people, including children, that were still inside the house with the suspect. They were informed that the suspect allegedly intended to shoot any law enforcement that came to the residence.

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A Florida man allegedly tried to rape a woman at gunpoint, and she told him that he would have to “shoot her first” if he expected her to do what he asked. 

On February 10, a woman and her boyfriend were on a camping trip in Pineview Park on Merritt Island. 

It was reported that a man walked up to their tent and told them to come outside. 

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A heavily intoxicated man wielding a knife was arrested after a woman called 911 to protect herself, and he refused to cooperate with the responding law enforcement.  

Early in the morning on February 7, a female homeowner had a male guest at her house. It was reported that he consumed a lot of alcohol and had been acting erratically for several hours. 

The man had allegedly been starting arguments with the woman and verbally harassing her for much of the prior evening. His aggression reportedly escalated, and he allegedly grabbed a knife. 

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On November 4, a 40-year-old woman from Melrose, Montana was at the Travelodge by Wyndham in Pocatello, Indiana.  

The woman went into the lobby, and she was reportedly holding a gun. 

Her hand was bleeding, and she called the authorities to tell them she accidentally shot herself. She also allegedly informed them that she would shoot anyone who tried to approach her. 

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A 17-year-old girl in Texas reportedly used a BB gun to threaten her male friend while three children were in the vehicle with them because she vehemently objected to going to Walmart. 

On October 25, a 17-year-old girl and her 20-year-old male friend drove to Walmart in Brownsville in a van with three children and a male passenger. 

It was reported that the woman’s 20-year-old companion wanted to go into the store, but she was completely against the idea. The pair allegedly began to fight over the shopping trip. 

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A man in Minnesota was arrested after allegedly putting children in harm’s way and threatening to shoot one of his neighbors with a shotgun. 

On the afternoon of June 18, two neighbors in Ogema, which is approximately 60 miles away from Fargo, had an interaction involving one of the men allegedly threatening the other with a firearm. 

The neighbor suspected of approaching the other man has four children. He has reportedly felt suspicious about his neighbor’s behavior. The man accused his neighbor of several acts that caused him distress. 

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A boy at a New York middle school was accused of threatening to shoot one of his classmates after the child refused to share his answers in science class. 

On the morning of May 25, students in one of the classrooms at Voorheesville Middle School in Voorheesville, New York, were working on a science lab assignment. 

An 11-year-old in the class reportedly asked another boy to give him the answers. The student said that he would not allow the boy to take the answers from his work. 

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When a man reportedly became angered by his neighbor’s use of a leaf blower, he allegedly approached while wearing his bathrobe and threatened him and his dog with a semi-automatic pistol. 

51-year-old Curtis Manfred Franz lives in a quiet, residential neighborhood in Largo, Florida. 

On March 8, just before 8:00 AM, Franz’s next-door neighbor was doing yard work. The man was using a leaf blower to remove leaves from his roof, and his dog was sitting in the backyard while he worked. 

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